[macrolit]

Personal library of Richard A. Macksey, retired professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University.

[inanotherunivrse]

In another universe, you told me why

[feral-ballad]

Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from Extracting The Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 ; “Dusk”

[isl-equ-ay]

[r-oshna-blog]

[smiless]

“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something.”

— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via psych-facts)

[kisxmesoft]

[jakobhetzer]

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[bestiolin]

leli creations

[poeticislam]

“Hold yourself to account before you are held to account.”

- Umar Ibn al Khattab (radiyallahu ‘anh) 

[gliklofhameln]

The Wailing Wall, Jerusalem — Gustav Bauernfeind (1848-1904), German

[nixscriptum]

[nixscriptum]

[yan-wo]

The Conference of the Birds, Persian Manuscript, circa 1600; Safavid Iran (Isfahan)

[nixscriptum]

[soracities]

“& so what—if my feathers are burning. I never asked for flight. Only to feel this fully, this entire, the way snow touches bare skin—& is, suddenly, snow no longer.”

— Ocean Vuong, from “Devotion”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[bestiolin]