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musings on July

"NW" Zadie Smith, "the Hands of Friendship" in Yerevan (@metamorphesque). "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Brontë (@flowerytale), Franz Kafka’s Diaries (@hungryfictions), "Summer night by the beach" Edvard Munch, "A Magic Mountain" Czeslaw Milosz (tr by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee), "Answer July" Emily Dickinson, "Four Sunflowers Gone to Seed" Vincent van Gogh, The Diaries of Franz Kafka (@shisasan)

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Quotes by Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

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Jihyun Yun, from Some Are Always Hungry; “Reversal”

[Text ID: “I so want to survive this. Please lead me whole into another season so I may dare begin again.”]

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Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. 

Carl Jung, “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”

I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. 

Franz Kafka, “Letters to Milena”

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Sally Rooney

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I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself

No Longer Human // Ask Polly: Help, I'm The Loneliest Person In The World! // Franz Kafka // Sue Zhao // Fingertips - Fortesa Latifi // Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky // Juansen Dizon // The Garden of Eden - Ernest Hemingway // On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

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Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters/ Anne Sexton, from a letter to Anne Clarke dated 23 March 1964

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Quotes by Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

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Haruki Murakami,Ottessa Moshfegh,Sylvia Plath(II),Henry Miller,Friedrich Nietzsche

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Whoever first said that poetry is dead failed to provide the autopsy. If poetry is dead, what a rowdy and glorious ghost. Poetry haunts. Poetry permeates the walls we put up. Poetry startles us awake and into our own aliveness. Poetry rustles the hairs on the backs of our necks and chases us into more compassionate rooms. Though it is difficult to change a stubborn mind, poetry can change our hearts in an instant.

Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, from How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

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“I live a life That burns a hole through life, that leaves a scar for life, That makes me weep for another life.”

— American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Terrance Hayes (via deformititties)

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Hi dear ♥️ I hope you're doing alright. I wanted to ask you what are your thoughts on Anne Carson's poetry? I read the phrase "my personal poetry is a failure. i do not want to be a person. i want to be unbearable" and I was like oh wow.. she's unpredictable!

i find anne carson deeply interesting, lot of her poetry absolutely gutted me (that unbeareable quote you mentioned, the glass essay, autobiography of red, her greek tragedy translations, many of her short talks, “i have never known a closeness like that”) she has such a unique style when you read something she wrote you know she’s the one who wrote it. her stuff doesn’t always touch me, for instance some of her interests aren’t really my thing, but her style is always so beautiful

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okay hold on this is so cool. bear with me

1) read this terrance hayes poem

2) read this gwendolyn brooks poem

3) go back to the terrance hayes poem and pay attention to the ends of lines

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Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Violet Dickinson, September 1907

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