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hi! i hope this question isn't too bothersome (thank you so much if you choose to reply); do you have any insight to offer on me feeling like there are too many books and films i'm not familiar with, too many gaps in my knowledge i could never make up? like i have so little time and an ocean of Lack in me. i want to have a good handle on the art i care about, but even after years i feel like such a novice.

do. not. be. greedy. with. this. feel the gaps first and then fill them, get it?

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კიდევ რა? წერე სიყვარულზეც და თქვი, რომ ჩაწვდი საიდუმლოს - რომ ლექსები იწერება სიყვარულამდე და სიყვარულის შემდეგ იკითხება. Was noch? Schreib auch über die Liebe und sag, dass du das Geheimnis erfuhrst – dass Gedichte vor der Liebe geschrieben und nach der Liebe gelesen werden.

Sviad Ratiani

aus dem Georgischen übersetzt von  Tengis Chatschapuridse

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Ex Voto წერე, რასაც არავინ გაპატიებს. მანდ არა, ქვემოთ, ფურცელზე წერე, რომ შენ თვითონ ხარ საკუთარი თავის სამშობლო და რომ წმინდაა შენი გული. Schreib, was dir niemand verzeihen wird. Nein, nicht dort unten, auf das Blatt schreib dass du dir selbst deine Heimat bist und dass rein ist dein Herz.

Sviad Ratiani

aus dem Georgischen übersetzt von  Tengis Chatschapuridse

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Fuck the rest, I say, and PROCEED!

jack kerouac

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I am free to want what I want. I want uninterrupted rapture. I believe this has been made manifest to me in dreams, and in music, and in the pages of Dostoevsky, in the lines of Shakespeare, in sexual joy, in drunkenness, and in being high on tea.

Jack Kerouac: windblown world (p.368/2006)

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I ain't afraid to roll in the bottom of things.

Jack Kerouac: windblown world (p.368/2006)

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...bereit zur Hingabe, wenn nur ihre Seele darin aufginge und das ganze Dasein darin verschwände.

flaubert: Madame Bovary

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Ich befürchte irgendwann steht für mich und alle meine Leute die Entscheidung an: Einsame Insel oder Untergrund? Einsame Insel oder Untergrund?

Sookee - Q1

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Warum postet du nichts mehr? Schade

Findest du? Dann fang' ich vielleicht wieder damit an (:

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…people who stand alone + burn. I’m attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 (via prousts)

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The first known poet in history, Enheduanna, was an Iraqi woman. She wrote about Inanna on tablets in the cuneiform language.  The interesting thing about her is that she had a position or title. It was “The keeper of the flame.” I think that if a poet should have any role at all, it should be (wherever and whenever) the same: “keeper of the flame.”

—Dunya Mikhail, from “New Directions Interview with Dunya Mikhail,” Cantos (April , 2010)

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Letters to Beatrice #1-4  A Series Of Unfortunate Events (2017) 

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Obwohl ich lieber gestorben wäre, als es irgendjemanden zu erzählen, machte ich mir Sorgen, dass mein überschwänglicher Drogenkonsum mein Gehirn und mein Nervensystem beschädigt hatte und auf eine irreparable und vielleicht nicht ohne Weiteres offensichtliche Weise womöglich auch meine Seele.

Donna Tartt: Der Distelfink

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getting my shit together (:

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