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[luthienne]

Nikki Giovanni, from “Mirrors”

[Text ID: … but It Cannot Be A Mistake to have cared … It Cannot Be An Error to have tried … It Cannot Be Incorrect to have loved]

[winonaryder1897]

19th century books will kill off a main character in one sentence and then spend 3 pages describing a street

[calliop-e]

-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[semifinaldestination-deactivate]

The enraging ordeal of being misinterpreted

[before-life]

Robert Longo, Mamac, Nice, France (photo by Freak-Out)

[calliop-e]

"There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

[sapphoanactoria]

Oh what I wouldn’t give to see that in theatre

[opheliaandjuliet]

“Don’t erase. Cross out rapidly and violently, never with slow consideration if you can help it.”

— Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town

[weeping-poetry]

[x-atropa-belladonna-x]

The Clod and the Pebble

''Love seeketh not itself to please,

Nor for itself hath any care,

But for another gives its ease,

And builds a heaven in hell's despair. "

So sung a little clod of clay,

Trodden with the cattle's feet,

But a pebble of the brook

Warbled out these metres meet:

"Love seeketh only Self to please,

To bind another to its delight,

Joys in another's loss of ease,

And builds a hell in heaven's despite. "

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William Blake (1757-1827)

[fear-coded]

Yeah unreciprocated love sucks but do you know what is worse? Unreciprocated hate. It’s truly so awful to be filled with rage at someone’s every move and trying to form a rivalry with them but they don’t even notice.

[le-miserie-del-mondo]

[flym]

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

— Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"

[hidden-beneath-the-pages]

"Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this"

"Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this"

Homer, Odyssey 20:18

[wlw-library]

just wanna send a pretty girl some wax sealed love letters, is that so much to ask?

[scatterybookowl-deactivated2022]

[bibliotecanticuada]

Some days I just feel like running far away with my (nonexistent) lover, without thinking anything at all tbh.