yeahloads:

Love letter of Frida Kahlo sent to Nickolas Muray, 1931

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why am I perpetually breaking my own heart

antigonick:

“(Yet I sob, I paw. Yet) I kiss.”

— Yanyi, excerpt of “Decrescence”, in The Year of Blue Water

lifeinpoetry:

In the end
Electra demanded blood
Antigone longed for her undefiled body
I felt my own terribleness
as if the façade of God were all that I had left

— Monica A. Hand, from “[In the end],” DiVida

(Source: lifeinpoetry)

violentwavesofemotion:

“I can’t hold you and I can’t leave you,”

— Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, tr. by Judith Thurman, from “Sonnets of Love and Discretion,”

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