#letters to friends family and editors

[metamorphesque]

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

[strykerlancer]

— Franz Kafka, from “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors.” / A Walk in the Woods by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1870.

[Text ID: I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.]

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unknown / Joy Harjo An American Sunrise / AVA you are safe here. / Rumi / unknown / unknown / Franz Kafka Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors / John Steinbeck East of Eden

[oresti-s]

Letters to Friends, Family & Editors, Franz Kafka.

[itsmelela]

I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.

- Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

[hiyutekivigil]

from Letters to Friends, Family and Editors by Franz Kafka

[deepseaidyll]

after tormenting myself for a long time, i am stopping.

— franz kafka

[arklay]

DANI HAINES x CARLOS OLIVEIRA / template.

[lelif]

on getting better

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[thebookquotes]

I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.

Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

[quotefeeling]

I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.

Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

[flowerytale]

Henry David Thoreau, from Walden; or, Life in the Woods Leonora Carrington, from The Hearing Trumpet Florence Welch, from Useless Magic: Lyrics & Poetry Mary Oliver, from “How I Go to the Woods”, Swan: Poems and Prose Poem Franz Kafka, from Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

Ivan Ivanovič Šiškin (1832–1898), Covert (detail) William Trost Richards (1833–1905), Woodland Landscape (detail) Bright Star, written and directed by Jane Campion

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Franz Kafka, from a letter to Oskar Pollak wr. c. August 1902, featured in "Letters to Friends, Family & Editors,"

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SHE HATED HER LIFE, NOT BECAUSE IT WAS BAD, BUT BECAUSE WHEN YOU HATE YOUR BRAIN AND YOUR BODY, IT'S HARD TO ENJOY THE REST.

Franny Choi I Guess By Now I Thought I'd Be Done With Shame / Erika L. Sánchez Amá / Franz Kafka Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors / Hanif Abdurraqib A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance / Richard Siken Birds Hover over the Trampled Field / Hélène Cixous The Selected Poems of Hélène Cixous / Alberto Zamboni Ovunque / Oscar Nin / Richard Siken Crush

i. Franny Choi I Guess By Now I Thought I'd Be Done With Shame [ Somewhere, / there is a version of me that isn't neck-deep in her invented filth. ]

ii. Erika L. Sánchez Amá [ Amá, I leave because / I feel like an unfinished / poem, because I'm always trying to bridge the difference. ]

iii. Franz Kafka Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors [ I don't feel particularly proud of myself. / But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well. ]

iv. Hanif Abdurraqib A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance [ I've run out of language to explain the avalanche of anguish I feel when faced with this world, and so if I can't make sense of this planet, I'm better off imagining another. ]

v. Richard Siken Birds Hover the Trampled Field [ The enormity of my desire disgusts me. ]

vi. Hélène Cixous The Selected Poems of Hélène Cixous [ You horrify me. But at the same time, I horrify myself. We are horrible. ]

vii. Alberto Zamboni Ovunque [ The silhouettes of two human figures stand in a room. The background is blurred around them. ]

viii. Oscar Nin [ Distressed painting portrait of a man. ]

ix. Richard Siken Crush [ a gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it. ]

[oresti-s]

Letters to Friends, Family & Editors, Franz Kafka.

[thehopefulquotes]

I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.

Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors