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nothing stay

[marlowe-art]

the pear is not content to stay still and yet is frightened of approaching the boundaries of its small, flat, plateworld

[midnightinshadow]

[mournfulroses]

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

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Henry Miller written c. January 1933, featured in A Literate Passion

[mournfulroses]

Sonya Vatomsky, from a poem titled "Spring Flowers," featured in Salt Is for Curing, publ. in 2015

[mournfulroses]

Rosa Chacel, from a diary entry featured in Diario, originally published in 1993

[shisasan]

From February 16 to 17, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

[toiich]

Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"He had not said 'I love you'; but he held her hand. Happiness is this, is this, he thought."

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

[unsureofu]

on loving someone who has passed

a self portrait in letters by anne sexton / aubade by louise glück / achilles and patroclus by @maieste / all about love by bell hooks / blue sun by nina mouawad / albert camus correspondance to maria casarès / un homme et une femme by stephan sinding / the gods show up by michael kinnucan / the chronology of water: a memoir by lidia yuknavitch

[metamorphesque]

"dead doesn't mean absent...", tathev simonyan

[weltenwellen]

Kim Addonizio, from "'Round Midnight'", What Is This Thing Called Love

[thedesigncenter]

Astrology print on cotton. April 18,1881.

[weltenwellen]

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Staying Quiet"

[simena]

Eva Roemer

[mournfulroses]

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter featured in The Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

[oresti-s]

Otis, Meadowlands, Louise Glück.

[thepersonalquotes]

“A house doesn’t become a home until love moves in.”

— Faraaz Kazi