Tag: Tailpiece
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Up In The Clouds..
“Yeah. My nostalgia is so extreme that I am capable of missing a swing my butt never actually touched.” “Nostalgia is a side effect of cancer,” I told him. “Nah, nostalgia is a side effect of dying,” he answered. Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus […]
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I Will Meet You Yet Again
I know nothing but that this life will walk along with me. When the body perishes all perishes but the threads of memory are woven of enduring atoms I will pick these particles weave the threads and I will meet you yet again. – Amrita Pritam, I Will Meet You Yet Again( Translated by Nirupama Dutt)
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From Unaccustomed Earth
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The City
The City by C.P. Cavafy You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one. Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong and my heart lies buried as though it were something dead. How long can I let my mind moulder in this […]