بَـــوحُ رُوحـــيِ

Heather Christle, The Crying Book

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

Ellen Bass, "The Thing Is"

Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "Song,"

wet evening in April by Patrick Kavanagh

John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Vita Sackville-West, from Complete Works of Vita Sackville-West

[ID: November 2. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart. End ID]

[ID: November 2. Vague hope, vague confidence. END ID]

[ID. October 4. I feel restless and vicious. Yesterday, before falling asleep, I had a flickering, cool little flame up in the left side of my head. The tension over my left eye has already settled down and made itself at home. When I think about it, it seems to me that I couldn’t hold out in the office even if they told me that in one month I’d be free. And most of the time in the office I do what I am  supposed to, am quite calm when I can be sure that my boss is satisfied, and do not feel that my condition is dreadful. By the way, last night I purposely made myself dull, went for a walk, read Dickens, then felt a little better and had lost the strength for sorrow. I still regarded the sorrow as justified but it seemed to have withdrawn somewhat, I looked at it from a distance and therefore hoped for better sleep. It was a little deeper too, but not enough, and often interrupted. I told myself, as consolation, that I had indeed once more repressed the great agitation in me but that I did not wish to succumb at once, as I had always done in the past after such occasions; rather, I wished to remain entirely conscious to the final flutterings of that agitation, which I had never done before. Perhaps in this way I would find hidden steadfastness in myself. END ID]

𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚒̈𝚜 𝙽𝚒𝚗 𝟷𝟿𝟶𝟹-𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟽

[ID. October 4. I feel restless and vicious. END ID]

W.B. Yeats, from The Wild Swans at Coole in "The Collected Poems Of W.B. Yeats"

Hayao Miyazaki // Rainer Maria Rilke, "Letters to a Young Poet" // @mounaks

{Words by L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea/ Jacqueline Woodson, If You Come Softly}