Sometimes I Think Of Yusuf, At The Beginning. Poet Son Of A Merchant Boy In Borrowed Armour, Skull Cracked

English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.

R.F. Kuang (Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, 2022)

I am a terrible combination of “whatever happens, happens” and “If everything doesn’t go according to plan, I will vaporize”

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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

-Virginia Woolf

"I shall move somewhere into the woods and try to improve myself."

1914, Franz Kafka

Art for arts sake

Nicky and Joe just out there absolutely crushing the enemies to lovers trope. no one’s doing it like them. iconic.

Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir

“She even tried to write a poem about it. She was always trying to write a poem.”

-Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (1983)