#but honestly I only ruminate over quotes from poetry and hitchhikers guide I literally pin quotes from hhgttg on my bulletin it’s😔yeah

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cas @archivistsasha tagged me in quoting five lines from lit/media that live rent free in my brain 🥰🥰 thanks so much this was so fun💖💖

1.  “The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.” - “Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy”, Douglas Adams

2. Even I / offered a firewood / to the world’s fire

Even I / provided a tear / to the world’s rain

Even I / gave a cry / to the world’s roar 

--”Jayabheri”, Sri Sri trans. from Telugu (roughly?)

3.They say one mustn’t step into one’s father’s life / I do; I scratch his elbows, his armpits -- “Stonemasons, My Father and Me”, Namdeo Dhasal trans. from Marathi (again, roughly) (lmao, im afraid to even quote this because the poem’s context of caste is VITAL for reading and i hope no one goes putting this wily nily in their web weaves, but :( this is the only part i can quote from memory)

4. won’t you come with me and celebrate what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. -- “won’t you come with me and celebrate?”, Lucille Clifton (unfortunately the only snippet i can recall from memory, but here again, entire poem is essential for its understanding. but this quote is what i can remember quote by-heart)

5. When did your name change from a proper noun to a charm? / It’s three vowels like jewels on the thread of my breath / It’s consonants brushing my mouth like a kiss — “Name”, Carol Ann Duffy

tagging: literally anybody on my dash who sees this!! like I know everyone says it, but really seriously if you see this and want to do it go for it! consider yourself tagged💕

#thanks cas!!! #also lol at myself having four poetry quotes and one quote from HITCHHIKER..... #but honestly I only ruminate over quotes from poetry and hitchhikers guide I literally pin quotes from hhgttg on my bulletin it’s😔yeah #was so so tempted to add the death aur shit quote from piku....... #tagged stuff