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my heart is a soft & sensitive mess

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[ID: excerpt from “The Collected Poems: The Rival,” Sylvia Plath

‘If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.’]

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"You can decorate absence however you want, but you're still gonna feel what's missing."

- Siobhan Vivian

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Classes are currently shifted to online classes due to the extreme heat here in my country. Not gonna lie, I actually missed this setup. 

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Excerpt from "Short Talks" by Anne Carson

[text ID: Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.]

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People aren't homes, they never will be. People are rivers, always changing, forever flowing. They will disappear with everything you put inside them.

~ Nikita Gill

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Anaïs Nin, in a letter to Henry Miller, d. March 26, 1932, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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You have always approached everything terrible trustfully. You have wanted to pet every monster.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898), coloured drawing from ‘Letters to Katie, 1883–1889’

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Anaïs Nin, in a letter to Henry Miller, d. March 9, 1932, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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honestly i just think we all need to slow down

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The Prestige, Hanif Abdurraqib

[ Text ID: the poem begins not where the knife enters / but where the blade twists. ] 

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Maybe that’s all I’m destined for. Maybe loving people from a distance and hiding my dreams between the pages of an old notebook is the only thing I will ever do, the only thing I know how to do. Maybe I’ll never have my great story-book worthy love story, maybe I’ll never write a novel, maybe I’ll never see every part of the world, maybe I’ll never find myself. Maybe I’ll spend the rest of my life waiting and regretting. Maybe I’ll never be strong enough. And that terrifies the hell out of me. 

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By B.Z @bravecatfish