Musings On Kisses

“You will freeze in place if you remain this way. You must not, dear. You have to move.”

— Rainer Marie Rilke, letter to Sidonie Nádherná von Borutín, August 1, 1913, translated by Ulrich Baer

Chandelier.

“Hair all tangled this morning - Shall I smooth it With spring rain Dripping form the jet-black Wings of swallows?”

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Yosano Akiko, “Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami”

"In my culture, we know death intimately. In Arabic, the highest expression of love is the phrase "ya'aburnee" Translated "you bury me" . It means "I love you so much, I'd sooner die than bury you". It was used by mothers in our lineage who were so used to losing their young in war. In my culture, we cannot talk about love without speaking death's name"

-George Abraham, "Untitled," Published In Black Napkin Press

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“Cover me with soft Earth.. jasmine, lilies and myrtle; and when they grow above me.. they will breathe the fragrance of my Heart into space.”

— Kahlil Gibran

—On Love, Marina Tsvetaeva

[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]

When Ocean Vuong wrote “Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?“ and Alex Turner sang “And do you look into the mirror to remind yourself you’re there? / Or have somebody’s goodnight kisses got that covered?”

Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)