Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!
happy too tired July everyone
“April / Is full of whispers, full of sighs,”— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from The Collected Poems; “Song Of A Second April,” (edited)
Excerpts for a 1920’s newspaper during the Spanish Flu
“You just have to go on when it is worst and most helpless —”— Ernest Hemingway, from a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald c. September 1929
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…how I
still, sometimes,
crave understanding.
still, sometimes,
crave understanding.
— Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings (via violentwavesofemotion)
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But the recollecting of bloom
keeps making November difficult.
— Emily Dickinson - from “How Happy I was if I Could Forget” in Complete Poems
(via watchoutforintellect)
(via watchoutforintellect)
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Later for a long time we learn how to bear what is borne by others. And how to bless a moment if it is without pain.
— Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001
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(via weltenwellen)
when marina tsvetaeva said “wings are freedom only if they are open in flight. on one’s back they are a heavy weight”
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There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.
— Franz Kafka, from Letters To Felice (via violentwavesofemotion)
“We are all survivors, and our details don’t need to isolate us – however, our being and vulnerability and experience can connect us in ways that are magical. That energy is real and palpable, and we can use it for good.”— Joanna C. Valente, interviewed by Lisa Marie Basile c. September 2019
“If I were not afraid of the word, I would say that I was happy.”— Zbigniew Herbert, tr. by Michael March, from The Collected Prose (1948-1998)
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Remove the outside, there’s the inside. Remove the inside and you see the soul.
— Vivre Sa Vie (1962) dir. by Jean-Luc Godard (via violentwavesofemotion)