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Alara • 4 cards
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
Maud Muller, by John Greenleaf Whittier
Isn’t that the saddest thing in the world, Ma? A comma forced to be a period? “Hello,” he says, without turning his
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
As Virginia Woolf testified in On Being Ill, “English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . . The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language
... See moreMeghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
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Andreas Vlach • 1 card
Poetry
Joachim Baan • 1 card
Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch! Did it make you ache so, leaving me?
Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass
Malheureux ! n'es-tu pas en démence ? ne te trompes-tu pas toi-même ? qu'attends-tu de cette passion frénétique et sans terme ? Je n'adresse plus de vœux qu'à elle seule ; mon imagination ne m'offre plus d'autre forme que la sienne, et de tout ce qui m'environne au monde je n'aperçois plus que ce qui a quelque rapport avec elle. C'est ainsi que je
... See moreJohann Wolfgang Von Goethe • Les Souffrances du jeune Werther (French Edition)
Brushing the locks aside, he now gazed upon the death-like beauty of the face, and caught immortal sadness from it. She seemed as dead;