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random book recs for you: the anthropologists by aysegul savas; the bee sting by paul murray; the netanyahus by joshua cohen; crossroads by jonathan franzen; dominion by tom holland; unruly waters by sunil amrith; himalaya by ed douglas

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early summer afternoons

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poems to read while having breakfast at the heartbreak hotel

I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) by Edna St. Vincent Millay 

I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

[you fit into me] by Margaret Atwood

You by Carol Ann Duffy

Be Near Me by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Blessed be the spectacle by Lev St. Valentine

You Are Tired (I Think) by E.E. Cummings

Hope you're well. Please don't read this by Lev St. Valentine

To Say Dark Things by Ingeborg Bachmann

Lilichka by Vladimir Mayakovski

Love and Hate by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal

Sanctuary by Jean Valentine

the winter sun says fight by Peter Gizzi

The More Loving One by W. H. Auden

A Primer For The Small Weird Loves by Richard Siken

Dirty Valentine by Richard Siken

Morning by Frank O Hara

We Don't Know How To Say Goodbye by Anna Akhmatova

You'll Live, But I'll Not… by Anna Akhmatova

from “An Attempt at Jealousy” by Marina Tsvetaeva

The Last Toast by Anna Akhmatova

In Dream by Anna Akhmatova

Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath

Talking In Bed by Philip Larkin

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats

La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats

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slowly settling into a routine involving reading essays, random book chapters, writing, and loads of coffee

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organised all my books today - a day well spent

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corners of my messy room

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What do you study?

hi, i recently completed my postgrad in economics.

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There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.

—Nicole Lyons

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i finally bought a chair and can now use the table in my room

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i bought a rug and now i sit sprawled on it like a cat

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slow down, you crazy child

new playlist alert ♡ go, save it !!

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"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."

- George Orwell, 1984

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time has no compassion on the sorrows of the soul, yet it heals all wounds

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“I am afraid of you. In loving me you hold a knife at my throat. In loving you I tell you exactly where to cut.”

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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

ig credit: encreetthe.

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Basilica Santi Apostoli by andre_andare.

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— Franz Kafka // Richard Siken