Manaswini Kumar

Manaswini Kumar

[achillesinhighheels]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— J. W. Goethe

[shakespearesdaughters]

[floridakilo]

inscription that i am obsessed with

[saltchip]

tbh my music taste is so hard to describe like it’s literally everything except for the songs i dont like

[wnyshaven]

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

- Anais Nin

[wedarkacademia]

"To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd."

- William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

[wedarkacademia]

How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.

- Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[wedarkacademia]

Yesterday I was the Moon by Noor Unnahar

[wedarkacademia]

"Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was."

- Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

[flowerytale]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles

[postcardswithoutanaddress]

" he who longs to meet you through his days and looks at the sky when you are away. whose world lights up with your smile and whose ruined house turns into a warm home with your voice and approaching footsteps. who falls deeper every time he looks into your eyes. who dishevells himself to fulfill your every whim. "

~ postcardswithoutanaddress

[flowerytale]

Jeanette Winterson, from Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

[flowerytale]

Frank O'Hara, from “Biotherm (for Bill Berkson)”, The Collected Poems

[am1na]

A woman using her husband's shadow to protect and shelter herself from the sun in Masijd al- Harām.

[ruhlare-deactivated20220822]

[jaane-ghazal]

When Mahmoud Darwish said, "A University degree, four books and hundereds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me 'good morning' and I read it as 'I love you'."

[nectarinez-rule]

*Little Hanuman eating a ripe mango*

Indra seeing him eat the sun: