February 2012
“A sky faded from too much light, hangs very far above, unreachable. From it, the...”
– Sharmistha Mohanty, from “Yellow Light”
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“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered,...”
– Anaïs Nin
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2/21/2012 - I’m craving for some cheesecake. And a bottle of vodka to drown out the uncertainties. 6:35 in the morning and I read a nice poem posted on the train station on my way to the University, so I kept it in my breast pocket along with some spare change, butterflies and a purple pen for future use. I hope I didn’t diminish the meaning too much like I usually do when I translate,...
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“My soul today is sad to the very marrow of its bones. Everything hurts me...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, trans. Margaret Jull Costa
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it...”
– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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“Natures of your kind, with strong, delicate senses, the soul-oriented, the...”
– Hermann Hesse
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“40. Danced because his long sleeves
Wouldn’t keep still, with that music...”
– Ezra Pound, Exile’s Letter
Anonymous asked: Another love story? Please?
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“And so I drag myself along, doing things I don’t want to do and dreaming...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, trans. Margaret Jull Costa
“Human beings have always employed an enormous amount of clever devices for...”
– John Gardner
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen (via fragilis)
“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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“I’d like to run away, to flee from what I know, from what is mine, from...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, trans. Margaret Jull Costa
“And only briefly then
you touch, you see, you press against
the surface of...”
– Dana Gioia, from “Do Not Expect“
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2/7/2012 One of my friends told me she wants to know how it feels to get a handwritten letter from the mail. So I’m going to mail her a 6 page letter in the morning even though I have hideous handwriting and all the wrong words to say. I can’t wait till she reads it <3
