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literary appreciation blog

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[seekingstars]

HOW’S THAT HOUSE THAT RAISED YOU? - Lev St. Valentine

[heavensghost]

Disappearing

[weltenwellen]

Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”, Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

[paper-wounds]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[paper-wounds]

[apocryphics]

J. Drew Lanham, Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts (2021) 

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a poem titled "As unforgettable as you’re forgetful," featured in Moscow in the Plague Years: Poems

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, transl. by Edward Snow, from a poem titled "Earth, Isn't This What You Want," featured in The Duino Elegies

[drakontomalloi]

“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.”

— William Blake, The Clod and the Pebble, Songs of Experience (via drakontomalloi)

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Vol. II: 1934-1939

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, “Winter Hours” in Upstream

[petaltexturedskies]

Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student

[violentcherries]

just so you know

2020