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Starlight stops To paint your portrait, With all the subtlety Of sunrise.   Your eyes, captivating. The universe Disintegrates.

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“Because sending a letter is the next best thing to showing up personally at someone’s door. Ink from your pen touches the stationary, your fingers touch the paper, your saliva seals the envelope, your scent graces the paper. Something tangible from your world travels through machines and hands, and deposits itself in another’s mailbox; their world. Your letter is then carried inside as an invited guest. The paper that was sitting on your desk, now sits on another’s. The recipient handles the paper that you handled. Letters create a connection that modern and impersonal forms of communication will never replace.”

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“You are the keeper of your own garden. So tend to it well: Have faith in your roots, for they are what keeps you grounded. Believe in the sun and the air, as they are always there for you when it feels like nothing else is. Water yourself, for even when you are feeling at your most withered, nourishment will help you grow. And trust that you shall bloom again... For even during the depths of the coldest seasons, you do still breathe beneath the chill of the air, knowing you you come alive again.”

— la-petitefille // Spring is strong, and so are you. 🌸

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Soft penmanship and ribbons | thepoetryofsilk

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"for some reason or another, my heart has decided to continue on with its beating."

- somber, yet uplifting, nighttime thoughts.

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“To forget. To forget everything. To open windows to daylight.”

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José Ángel Valente, from “II-Memory of K.,” Puerto del Sol (Volume 40 Number 2, Summer 2005)

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Write letters to those you love | stellawolfeco

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From the 1891 edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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Your light…Your silence… In the silence, without listening, I heard it, and without words, without language or breath, I answered.

C.K. Williams, from The Collected Poems; “With Ignorance,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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"I collect memories like I do flower petals. Pressed firmly between the pages of books, tucked away for when I wish to descend back into that warm world that was at one time the present - A world which is coated with the sweet scent of old roses, faded ink, and the sweetest nostalgia."

- It all still exists through memory.

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"If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong."

- Masaru Emoto, Secret Life of Water

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you are far beyond anything the universe has ever dared show me.

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a love letter to Spring 🌸

the sky opens up, the rain meets the earth, and i feel a sudden and welcomed renewal.

each blossom is a gift, and each bloom represents a new chance for me to take.

petals are falling softly with the gentle rain, like the warm tears which stain my face...

... because the world is so beautiful, my soul is so touched, and the earth is still smiling, regardless of the harm which this race has inflicted upon her. and the only thing that makes sense for me to do, is to cry.

and i whisper to springtime: "i hardly deserve you, but thank you so much for returning. i knew you'd come back."

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CLASSIC OF THE DAY:

Lady Chatterley’s Lover  by D.H. Lawrence

Amazon: 3.9

Goodreads: 3.46

This is the story of Lady Constance Chatterley, or ‘Connie’, her loveless marriage to Sir Clifford Chatterley, a man rendered both physically and emotionally crippled and impotent by the First World War, and her love affair with their gamekeeper, Mellors, a unique character who has deliberately retreated from opportunities for social and economic advancement and returned to his working class roots. The story is completely character-driven, which is why its grand themes of the immutability of the class divide, the dangers of championing the mind over the body and the fundamental human need for true ‘connexion’ with other human beings are almost never jarring.

This book surprised me in so many ways. I expected it to be erotic, which it was not; what I didn’t expect was a narrative voice that so perfectly matched the evolution of the plot - a voice both flexible and artistically true. At the beginning of the story, when describing Connie’s butterfly-like peregrinations from one casual affair to the next, the voice is whimsical and childlike. From somewhere around the middle of the book onwards, the plot steadily intensifies, matched blow for blow by the narrative voice, which tightens its focus and becomes much more cynical and fatalistic.

A surprise package in almost every way, subtly profound and unfailingly engaging, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is enigmatic, unsettling, funny and stylistically beautiful. Here is a 'classic’ truly deserving of that title.

by guest reviewer Sally Howes

Read excerpts from the book here!

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From the 1891 edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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i want to skip for miles across the longest field, dress flowing behind my back, feeling the wind against my face

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my heart is a dollhouse and you hold the key.

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