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why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry

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— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947-1955

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Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011

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truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

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— “suddenly it’s december”, margaux paul

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what's the opposite of feeling sand slip through your fingers because I feel this poem more and more as time passes

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on love, pt. 1

Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air / bell hooks, All About Love / Joseph Campbell / Hozier, "Wasteland, Baby" / bell hooks, All About Love

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Vardges Petrosyan, Years Lived and Unlived (translated by metamorphesque)

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good bones by maggie smith saturday . give it up for good bones by maggie smith saturday

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“too much love” - photo sequence by katja kemnitz

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— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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to begin with, the sweet grass by mary oliver, from “devotions”

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{Words by José Olivarez from Citizen Illegal /@fatimaamerbilal , from even flesh eaters don't want me.}

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anecdote of the pig, tory adkisson // achilles & partoclus // house of dragon, 1x07 // plainwater, anne carson // the truth about forever, sarah dessen // lighthousekeeping, jeanette winterson

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negative space

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Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night