kurd /rojava ⚡

ثريّا

[starlightacademia]

I wish I wasn't, such a dreamer. I've ruined this life for myself.

— N.M. Sanchez

[raniiusrii27]

أن نكتُب فِي نهاية سُطورنا أنّنا نِلنَا ما صَبرنا مِن أجلهِ.

[89words]

“By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness.”

— Pablo Neruda

[e-jotja-deactivated20200224]

A healthy relationship

[firstfullmoon]

“Postcard of time, stolen time. and I have such wide need. How can I tell you of all the birds visiting me? First, geese at night—just as you said—flying by the light of the river. No, I mean by the absence of the light of the river. Then, cranes, three: a dream, a painting, a photograph. Also, this paper if you fold it: origami sign of—what? Good fortune against great distances, against exhaustion, or so I’ve read. Remember, you said you wanted birds at parting. Okay then, take mine. Let this be the feather in your mailbox.”

— Mary Ann Samyn, “Wish You Were Here,” Inside the Yellow Dress (New Issues Press, 2001)

[89words]

“Serenity in eyes. Wildness in bones.”

— Armaan, Wild Gentleman. 

[the-soulwhispers]

"You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry."

~ Frida Kahlo

[existential-celestial]

“On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars—Something good will come out of all things yet—And it will be golden and eternal just like that—There’s no need to say another word.”

— Big Sur, Jack Kerouac

[89words]

“I daydream, calm, quiet.”

— “One Day Less” - A Short Story by Clarice Lispector 

[soracities]

“I had no language for what was passing through me.”

— Meena Alexander, from “Fault Lines,” originally published c. 1993 (via existential-celestial)

[petaltexturedskies]

Jane Austen, sense and sensibility (1811)

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Kelsey Danielle, from “Life And Other Things.”

[petaltexturedskies]

The blue of the sky falls over me like silk, the flowers begin to burn, and I want to live my life all over again, to begin again, to be utterly wild.

Mary Oliver, excerpt of "a meeting", in the truro bear and other adventures

[fairydrowning]

"So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence."

– R. Arnold

"I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Louise Glück, from “Timor Mortis.”

[covergirlsanddancingcavaliers]

“Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.”

— Marlene Dietrich (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[theotreptos]

“All literature is scarry. It celebrates the wound and repeats the lesion.”

— Hélène Cixous, Preface to Stigmata