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Sums it up.
It’s that thing when you’re with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it… but it’s a party… and you’re both talking to other people, and you’re laughing and shining… and you look across the room and catch each other’s eyes… but - but not because you’re possessive, or it’s precisely sexual… but because… that is ( Read more... ) -
And a few from Ms. El-Tahawy's page
"That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. [...] I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then, and perhaps there is ( Read more... ) -
Willian Stafford, "A Way of Writing"
"For the person who follows with trust and forgiveness what occurs to him, the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream."
From litverve tumblr.. -
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"the dark it is only the light
that we keep feeling a need to account for"
- W. S. Merwin, from “The Marfa Lights”, in Migration
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And some tidbits from the Lit Verve tumblr..
..I know I'm on the wrong (social) medium, but that doesn't matter.
"Let go, live your life,
the grave has no sunny corners -"
- Charles Wright, from “High Country Canticle” in Scar Tissue: Poems
"If to the moon
one puts a handle-what
a splendid fan!"
- Sokan
"…we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It’s not ( Read more... ) -
4 years later, but still want to throw an update...
... had to recover the passwords to 2 ancient email accounts in order to recover the password to this journal, because continuity is important, or something like, but also so i can post stuff i found on tumblr/twitter... technology and the world moves ahead and i'm updating a livejournal account. it's cool. i'm not gonna worry about it. anyway, ( Read more... ) -
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"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting."
- e e cummings