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Tonight I love you on a spring evening. I love you with the window open. You are mine, and things are mine, and my love alters the things around me and the things around me alter my love.
Jean-Paul Sartre in a letter to Simone De Beauvoir written c. 1926 from Witness to My Life: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone De Beauvoir, 1926–1939
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theladyonfire · 1 day
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And now it’s spring, so my ideas are always so nice, sharp, inventive, and the dreams I have are tender; everything is rose-coloured.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor People
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Virginia Woolf, from To The Lighthouse
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
Sylvia Plath in a diary entry dated 9 March 1956 from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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L.M. Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor People
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A man plays piano in one of the palaces of ousted Iraq President Saddam Hussein in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad
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theladyonfire · 4 days
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Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters
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theladyonfire · 5 days
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Deema K. Shehabi, ed. by Nathalie Handal, from The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology; “Breath”
[Text ID: "You come to me from mountains / bathed by powerful, musky angels,"]
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theladyonfire · 6 days
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Acropolis Ruins at Night by Hiroshi Yoshida (1925)
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a girl of fear, a woman of anger— look how we've grown
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theladyonfire · 6 days
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I pray in words. I pray in poems. I want to learn to pray through breathing, through dreams and sleeplessness, through love and renunciation.
Anna Kamienska, from In That Great River: A Notebook
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theladyonfire · 6 days
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Franz Wright, from "Dawn Walks in Blue" in God's Silence: Poems
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Emily Dickinson, from Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
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Anna de Noailles, from"Spring Lullaby" in Poems
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May Sarton, The Journals of May Sarton, vol. I
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Louise Glück, Marigold and Rose: A Fiction
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