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

“You’d like to imagine them at sea now, having grown tired of haunting your sleep.”

— Christine Kitano, “Ancestors” from Sky Country (via smokefalls)

House carved into a stone by a 15th century Romanian monk 

not gonna lie i’m pretty uncomfortable like all the time

I'll write him in thousand different ways until my ink bleeds.

Different ways of loving-siyah.

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

- Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life.

 when sylvia plath wrote “the silence depressed me. it wasn’t the silence of silence. it was my own silence.” and when anne carson wrote “why does tragedy exist? because you are full of rage. why are you full of rage? because you are full of grief.” and when jenny slate wrote “and i am getting older but i am not growing up and my heart is getting soft dark spots on it like a fruit that has gone bad.” and when virginia woolf wrote “to want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain.” and when susanna kaysen wrote “when you’re sad, you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.” and when margaret atwood wrote “already my childhood seemed far away – a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. did i regret its loss, did i want it back? i didn’t think so…” and when gillian flynn wrote “i was not a lovable child, and i’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult.”

I. “the vault” andrés cerpa II. “blood makes the blade holy” evan knoll III. “the sentence” anna akhmatova IV. “sweet the sound” clementine von radics V. vincent van gogh VI. “carnet de voyage” craig thompson VII. “v for vendetta” alan moore VIII. “highly logical behavior” john corey whaley

You look like the killer,I look like the lamb.

Would you kill for me or kill me?

did the twin flame bruise paint you blue