Midnighthieves - Vesper

Gregory Orr, Here

Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

don't look at me with those brown eyes or I might just spend the rest of my life keeping your hands warm

You cannot take it all. Offer. Sacrifice does not kill, but preserve, make it holy. Until wings turn into a cross. However noble, if we do things on our own, we are the enemies of grace. Odysseus was noble. Nevertheless Dante put him in hell, precisely for that reason. Hell is based on justice. Heaven is grace. Nobody deserves it.

Ewa Chrusciel, from "is there something down by the water keeping itself from us", Strata

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Leila Chatti, from “Tea”

Devin Kelly, Ordinary Plots substack

Burnt out af but still going on

When I nap in the afternoon.

“"Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.” Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

Adonis, Selected Poems, tr. by Khaled Mattawa

clutching to my wonder and love for the world despite the endless tasks