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Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

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"And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"

-Vincent van Gogh

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“(honestly, I am so disgusted with my mentality. I am not deep, I don’t work, I revel and go lax with physical comforts. I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.)”

— Sylvia Plath

#sylvia plath #literature #confession

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“Through her, in a rush of musk and saffron, beauty falls into disarray.”

— Ibn Al-Arabi, excerpt of ‘Tigris Song’ (via pairedaeza)

#ibn al-arabi #her #beauty

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— Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena (via lumamonchtuna)

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Ta phir na intezaar mein neend aaye umr bhar

Aany ka ehd kar gaye aaye jo khwaab mein

#literature #art #poetry #mirza ghalib #ghalib #urdu classic #urdupoetry #اردو شاعری #مرزا غالب

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#Palestine

"here lie those who loved life and could not find a way to live it" x

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"here lie those who loved life and could not find a way to live it" x

#palestine #فلسطين

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Margaret Atwood, from "Roominghouse, Winter", Selected Poems: 1965-1975

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May Sarton, "Of Grief", Selected Poems

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Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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سارے عالم میں بھر رہا ہے عشق

Love is spreading all over the world

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Maybe, Because Winter is Late" (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)

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i have a soft spot in my heart for people who notice the little things

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Alex Dimitrov, from "Tuesday"

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i don't pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.

― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

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why are you haunted?

creature, half•alive // why be happy when you could be normal?, jeanette winterson // one need not a chamber - to be haunted, emily dickinson // robert breault // midnight visitor, dean gioia // real estate, richard brautigan // the bloody chamber and other stories, angela carter // i'm broke and mostly friendless, and i've wasted my whole life, heather havrilesky // ghost i, christina marie brown // john koenig // velocity, dean koontz // ghosts in the attic, cosimo s. // real estate, richard siken // remaining, dean gioia // tomorrow, and, tomorrow, and tomorrow, gabrielle zevin // haunted womanhood, heather havrilesky // haunting of night vale live show