The Wind Will Carry Us

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[sim0rgh]

This could be the beginning of a Tumblr revival…

[persianpoetry]

[two-thirtyy]

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

[taykoutmccleod]

reblog if its friday and you made it

[nuggsmum]

[persianpoetry]

[megairea]

“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again,”

— Frank O’Hara, from Mayakovsky

[themushroomblues]

Teju Cole on poverty

[communicants]

Soleil Ô (Med Hondo, 1967)

[lifeinpoetry]

“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.”

— Maggie Nelson, from Bluets

[sim0rgh]

“I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.”

— Frank O'Hara (via observando)

[hotwomenarchive]

[seamusheaney-deactivated2021041]

“I don’t remember how to say home in my first language, or lonely,, or light I remember only delam barat tang shodeh, I miss you, and shab bekheir, goodnight.”

— Kaveh Akbar, excerpt of “Do You Speak Persian?” Portrait of the Alcoholic

[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

a handful of french billionaires have pledged 600+ million euros for Notre Dame in less than 12 hours. let that put into perspective how easily billionaires could end world hunger, poverty, lack of access to healthcare/clean water/education but choose not to. 600+ million in twelve hours from just 3 people

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

For so long every step I’ve taken has been from one tongue to another.

Kaveh Akbar, Do You Speak Persian? (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[dilgudaz]

Biliyorsun ben hangi şehirdeysem Yalnızlığın başkenti orası.

You know that in whatever city I might be

That place is the capital of loneliness.

Cemal Süreya

(via dilgudaz)

[darwishism]

I fear the eyes that can break through my banks So that my heart is exposed to all 

[sim0rgh]

By Brenna Twohy

[sim0rgh]

I keep coming back to this... By Taha Muhammad Ali