Curious Minds

A haven of literary wonder, quotes and poetry. Occasionally art and philosophy. Sometimes my cats will make appearances because cats and books belong together.

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from her book titled "Hekate: the Witch: Poems", published in 2025

[echoesoftheinfinite]

Part of the 'Wandering Echoes' collection.

[the-moments-we-have]

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[vexheart]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Melissa Cox

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[mournfulroses]

John Keats, from a poem featured in "The Complete Poetical Works & Letters of John Keats,"

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[starwarsgrl77]

A part of me is missing

[whendidmythoughtsgocrazy]

Grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love. This is the last act of loving someone. And you realize that it will never end. You get to do this to translate this last act of love for the rest of your life.

k.b. // unknown

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[mythologyofblue]

But when you lose someone, you don’t lose them all at once, and their dying doesn’t stop with their death. You lose them a thousand times in a thousand ways. You say a thousand goodbyes. You hold a thousand funerals.

-Sara Seager, The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir

[onthelearningtongue]

denial

[the-catholic-inkling-deactivate]

My hobbies include reading, writing and doing neither of those things

[metamorphesque]

the unbearable heaviness of girlhood / Su Xinyu / Lucie Brock-Broido

[metamorphesque]

Separation, W. S. Merwin