Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
The Thief Lord, Cornelia Funke
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"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night"
Sarah Williams
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"The desire to be sicker, to prove that you are sick, itself is indicative of sickness. A well person doesn't desire to be sick"
No greater desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound.
"There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get."
{Unknown/ Georges Bataille, Ecstasy, Guilty trans. Bruce Boone/ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath}
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Coffee is the sound of taste, a sound for the aroma. It is a meditation and a plunge into memories and the soul.
(from Mahmoud Darwish's Memory for Forgetfulness)
Coffee should not be drunk in a hurry. It is the sister of time, and should be sipped slowly, slowly.
(from Mahmoud Darwish's Memory for Forgetfulness)
I only believe in the easy things,
like red lipstick and coffee before noon and writing essays in pen.
(from Kristina Haynes, Self-Portrait at Twenty-One)
They can aim sea, sky, and earth at me, but they cannot root the aroma of coffee out of me.
(from Mahmoud Darwish's Memory for Forgetfulness)
I think we all speak a different kind of language than each other,
but you sound a whole lot like coffee on a Sunday morning and the rain is falling bitter against the windowpane.
(from Shinji Moon's He Loves the Rain)
You give me an apartment full of morning smells-
toasted bagel and black coffee and the freckled lilies in the vase on the windowsill.
(from Rebecca Lindenberg's Catalogue of Ephemera)
Making Coffee
Excerpts taken from trivarnahariharan_poetry on Instagram
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