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Créditos en la imagen.

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“More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn’t alone.”

— James Frey; A Million Little Pieces

#poetry

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“I’m sorry to all the people I hurt while I was hurting.”

— Unknown

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When I was little, I met a girl with big black eyes.

We would go to class together and she would always look at me,

but I never said anything to her because I was very shy.

One day, when I came back from break, she had left a little paper airplane on top of my desk.

I looked at her, she was already looking at me and smiled, but I never said anything to her because I was very shy.

But the second day she had left two little paper airplanes.

I looked at her again, she smiled at me again, but nothing, I still couldn't say anything to her.

On the third day? On the third day the desk was full of paper airplanes.

The class? The classroom was full of paper airplanes.

The school? The school was full of paper airplanes.

So I had no choice but to look for her, and I looked for her and when I found her I asked her:

"Why? Why do you give me so many paper airplanes?" .

And she answered me:

"Because you... You are my sky."

"Avioncitos de papel", by Jairo Anibal Niño

#spanish poetry

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Excerpt from “Del Mito” by Jaime Sabines

#Spanish poetry

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Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “The voice I owe to you”

[Text ID: “I don’t need time to know / what you are like: we knew / each other like lightning.”]

#spanish poetry

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Arabic love poems are on another level, I remembered a line written by Farouq Jwaydeh

“and if the devil was ever to see you, he’d kiss your eyes and repent”

like come on 😭

#arabic poetry

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رميت كل قواميس في النار وسميت لغتي.

I threw all of my dictionaries in the fire and named you my language.

#Arabic poetry #Poetry #Poetic prose

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Words to think about

{Alice Oseman, Radio Silence/ Emily Palermo, from Untitled/ Franz Kafka, from Diaries/ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar/ Marya Hornbacher, Waiting/ Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. May 1922/ Mahmoud Darwish/ Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova; "The Old Portrait"/ Lyric Hunter, from "A Garden," Swallower/ Albert Camus/ Varsha/ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Meek One}

#Web weave #poetic prose

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"I feel like I'm in the midst of a war, and both its sides are me."

#Poetry

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work song by hozier / mahmoud darwish

#poetry #Arabic poetry

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ishq se tabiat ne zist ka maza paya, dard ki dawa pai dard-e-be-dawa paya.

"Through love, I tasted the spirit of life. Curing one pain, it yielded another incurable one."

- Mirza Ghalib

#Arabic poetry