Ismail Kadare, Në studion dimërore, trans. by Enna Horn

The Solitary Summer, Elizabeth Von Arnim / Noon, Louise Glück / Schoolgirl, Osamu Dazai / The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy

on summer

The time to Live and The Time to Die (1985), dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien

The Green, Green Grass of Home (1982), dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien

The Green, Green Grass of Home (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1982)

Naomi Shihab Nye, “Love Letter, Hate Letter.” Red Suitcase

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. April 1956

Julia de Burgos, tr. by Jack Agüeros, from Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos; "To Julia de Burgos"

[Text ID: "in all my poems I undress my heart."]

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

— Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena (via lumamonchtuna)

Langston Hughes, “Litany.” Selected poems of Langston Hughes

Natalie Wee, Least of all

i was sixteen for twenty years

Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

April 10, 1927 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

“Write to me in spite of my silence. Sometimes it seems I no longer have anything to say to anyone except to you and in everything I intend to do, I would be at quite a loss if I could not turn to you.”

— Albert Camus, from a letter to Jean Grenier.

"In addition to the process of mourning and self-forgiveness, another aspect of self-compassion I emphasize is in the energy that's behind whatever action we take. When I advise, "Don't do anything that isn't play!" some take me to be radical, even insane. I earnestly believe, however, that an important form of self-compassion is to make choices motivated purely by our desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, duty, or obligation. When we are conscious of the life-enriching purpose behind an action we take, when the sole energy that motivates us is simply to make life wonderful for others and ourselves, then even hard work has an element of play in it. Correspondingly, an otherwise joyful activity performed out of obligation, duty, fear, guilt, or shame will lose its joy and eventually engender resistance."

--Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD, "Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life"