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Sydney Mortimer Laurence (American, 1865–1940)

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slowly starting to feel like creativity is coming back to me after spending a few weeks feeling every last ounce of it was sucked out of me

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aimless reading

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home and visiting bookstores again

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“Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They're like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and after.”

Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

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everything should just get better immediately and forever

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like an open wound, it's here, and it hurts and it stays.

~ new playlist alert <3

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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

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found these lovely pictures on pinterest <3

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I'm only poetry, soul, nothing else.

- Vladimir Mayakovsky

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Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days.

— Anne Carson

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“When you are not fed love on a silver spoon you learn to lick it off knives”.

—Lauren Eden

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Analicia Sotelo, from Virgin: Poems; “South Texas Persephone”

[Text ID: “Look now: my heart / is a fist of barbed wire.”]

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Louise Glück in her garden. “friends, conversations, gardens. daily life. it's what we have”

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Abandoned Psyche by Gennaro Calí (1832)

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Beautiful vintage book spines