Fatima Aamer Bilal, "We were put on this earth desperate, hungry and willing."

Maggie Smith, from a poem titled "Now They’re Saying Isolation Atrophies the Brain," featured in A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems

Claude de Burine, tr. Gloria Still, from Serving Blood: New Poems by French Women; “The Medium”

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a poem titled "Girlfriend II," featured in Moscow in the Plague Years: Poems

[Text ID: “I want a poem I can grow old in. I want a poem I can die in.”]

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟷𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟻 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

Over - Sydney Rose/Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami/“Drama Queen"- ROAR /unknown/The Truth About Grief - Fortesa Latifi/ Sidewalk - Richard Silken/Over - Sydney Rose

Octavio Paz, ‘The House of Glances’ (selected lines), A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

Pablo Neruda, from a poem titled "So That You Will Hear Me," featured in Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

My peace began where your gravity ended. ( ✩ )

Pablo Neruda, from a poem titled "We Have Lost Even," featured in Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

March 9, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

— Nizar Qabbani, ‘Light Is More Important Than The Lantern’, (tr by B. Frangieh And C. Brown) (via lunamonchtuna)