— Devin Kelly, Ordinary Plots Substack

why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry

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Andrei Tarkovsky.

“How’s life?”

Me:

Joy Sullivan, from "Late Bloomer", Instructions for Traveling West

not to worry mutuals, I’ve recruited a halfling to detect any and all spike traps on your dashboard, just make sure not to scroll too fast so he has time to find them

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep. I've seen it too many times.

— Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

The year is 3078, earth is now a barren wasteland, the oceans are boiling, and humanity has been completely wiped out.

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