[wovi]

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joy sullivan

[petaltexturedskies]

So many broken-hearted people have got to hear the birds sing, and see all the little flowers grow,

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Lavinia N. Dickinson written c. April 1860

[metamorphesque]

fyodor dostoevsky (the brothers karamazov), charles bukowski (a vote for the gentle light)

[metamorphesque]

czesław miłosz, from the poem "hope"

[watchoutforintellect]

“Tonight I love you on a spring evening. I love you with the window open. You are mine, and things are mine, and my love alters the things around me and the things around me alter my love.”

— Jean Paul Sartre - from a letter to Simone de Beauvoir

[endless-unfolding]

“The Italians have a word for the store of poems you have in your head: a gazofilacio […] in its original language it actually means a treasure chamber of the mind. The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life. And unlike paintings, sculptures or passages of great music, they do not outstrip the scope of memory, but are the actual thing, incarnate.”

— Clive James, ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life,’ The Guardian (26 September 2020)

[weltenwellen]

Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu, tr. by Jane Hirshfield & Mariko Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

[feral-ballad]

Kenny Fries, from Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability; "Beauty and Variations"

[feral-ballad]

Kenny Fries, from Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability; "Beauty and Variations"

[lunamonchtuna]

— Amal El-Mohtar, from This Is How You Lose the Time War (via lunamonchtuna)

[lunamonchtuna]

— Amal El-Mohtar, from This Is How You Lose the Time War (via lunamonchtuna)

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Louise Glück, "The Burning Heart"

[lunchboxpoems]

[havingapoemwithyou]

boot theory by Richard Siken

[girlfictions]

Tanaya Winder, from “Uncharted Territory of Grief”

[metamorphesque]

"All of these flames ...", Eghishe Charents (translated by tathev simonyan)

[feral-ballad]

Sayat Nova, from Anthology of Armenian Poetry, ed. & tr. by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian; "One of a kind"

[feral-ballad]

Missak Medzarents, from Anthology of Armenian Poetry, ed. & tr. by Diana Der Hovanessian and Marzbed Margossian; "Twilight"