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like a lily, drowned, under water—

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lissa; don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness—
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It's so quiet, and empty, when he's left. I feel like a landscape, a ground without a figure.

—Sharon Olds, excerpt of "Stag's Leap", in Stag's Leap

I sometimes feel like a post standing in a raging sea, lashed on all sides by the waves. But I am firmly moored, and the years have helped to weather me. I want to live to see the future.

Etty Hillesum, from a diary entry featured in An Interrupted Life: the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork (translated from the Dutch by Arnold J. Pomerans)

“Anger was her element. Her other was shyness. She could barely control the torments caused by embarrassment. She would blush to the roots of her hair. She would hauntingly walk to her execution, livid with disdain. Had she raised her cast down green eyes, she would have appeared like Medusa.”

Asya Tsvetaeva, on Marina Tsvetaeva, featured in “A Life in Poems,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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