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— Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems; “On the Road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari” by Robin Coste Lewis

— Ilya Kaminsky, from ‘Travelling Musicians’ (‘Isaac Babel’), Dancing in Odessa

— Valery Larbaud, tr. by William Jay Smith, from “L’etterna Volutta,”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

— Lu Yun, from tr. by Burton Watson, “For Ku Yen-hsien, A Poem for Him to Give to his Wife,”

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)  in: “Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 10: Journal NB31: 138″ (1854), translated from the Danish by Bruce H. Kirmmse  (via finita--la--commedia)

— Martha Gellhorn, in a letter to Campbell Beckett, from Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn 

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947–1955 (via violentwavesofemotion)

— Audre Lorde, from The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde; “Gemini,””

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, from St. Irvyne; or The Rosicrucian.

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to his sister written c. March 1912

— Clarice Lispector, from Água Viva, trans. Stefan Tobler (New Directions, 2012) (via wishbzne)

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via nauseadaily)

Jean-Paul Sartre (via nauseadaily)

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via nauseadaily)

— Nuala Archer, from From A Mobile Home: Poems; “Wild Turkeys at Vinson,”

Olga Orozco, from Engravings: Torn from Insomnia: “A Face In Autumn,” (via violentwavesofemotion)