Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

you know that man vs bear conversation ppl are having? dostoy gets it

Takuboku Ishikawa, from a diary entry featured in Romaji Diary and Sad Toys

prince myshkin every time he meets someone, for some reason

just saw this on pinterest and it hit me like a truck

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Short Story" in The Collected Poems

hey sorry your boyfriend said that russian classics are about that life is bleak. yeah he meant dostoyevsky and tolstoy. no, he didn't look beyond any of the lowest lows of the stories. he didn't even see the overarching themes of beauty and hope and connection. frankly we have all been laughing about him and we're gonna beat him up now. sorry

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

there is something 2 be said about how rodya killed the pawnbroker with the blunt end of the axe. Like hes so extremely repressed that even in that single moment of energy and animalistic violence he was still 'holding back' by not using the sharp blade.

It would have made it more real to him, if he used the sharp end. Thats what mass murderers and slaughterers do, and hes not one of them, hes different.

"ماذا تطوي في قلبك حتى فاض على سيماك؟"

-صلاح عبد الصبور