heavydirtysoul

I dream too much and I don’t write enough and I’m trying to find God everywhere

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John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

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Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

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Florence + The Machine, Never Let Me Go

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Hélène Cixous, from her novel titled "Inside," originally published in 1986

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Margaret Atwood, from "The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart" in Selected Poems II: 1976-1986

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Zelda Fitzgerald, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

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Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Edward Sackville-West, written c. September 1926, from The letters of Virginia Woolf : Vol. III, 1923-1928

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Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains

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Aimé Césaire, from “Lagoonal Calender”; tr. by Clayton Eshleman and Annette J. Smith

Text ID: I inhabit a sacred wound

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“Everything seems to have a soul – wood, stones, the wine we drink and the earth we tread on. Everything, do you hear me, absolutely everything.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Carl Wildman, from “Zorba the Greek,” wr. c. 1946

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erotic melancholy; June 27, 1914 [From Lou Andreas-Salomé to Rainer Maria Rilke] Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: a love story in letters (1897-1926)

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We carry our world within us. June 24, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

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Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a poem titled "Interim," featured in The Complete Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Sylvia Plath, "Three Women"