Arabic Poetry Is So Beautifully Yet Painfully Romantic, I Mean “they Asked “do You Love Her To Death?”

beating the mental illness allegations by going to shower

— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

the world is a cruel harsh evil place *had to get out of bed*

til we were dead and gone and buried

check the pulse and coming back swearing

it’s the same

after three months in the grave

Could u please do a tutorial on torture 👀

“Small delights – a clear winter sunset through the natural iron grillwork of black trees, a street lamp shining through ice-encased branches, blue sky glittering, and sun on ice-crusted snow. Loveliness, loveliness.”

— Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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When will I experience love such as this...😔

“Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds,”

— Izumi Shikibu, from “Even if I now saw you”; The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems (tr. by Jane Hirshfield & Mariko Aratani)

I think that the Hamilton musical is objectively the funniest thing that could happen to that man's memory. Imagine dying of a gunshot wound infection in 1804 and learning from the afterlife that tweenage girls in 2017 are drawing thousands upon thousands of images of you making out with your fellow congressmen because someone wrote a 2-hour rap opera about you. I like to imagine that Hamilton found a monkey's paw and wished to leave a legacy, and this is what it did to him.