metamorphesque:

  — Heaven Is Not Verbose: A Notebook by Vera Pavlova (tr. Steven Seymour)

[text ID: On Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space: his last name comes from the Russian gagara, a flightless bird.]

liriostigre:

Mary Oliver, “Summer Morning” from Red Bird

violentwavesofemotion:

“Your sweet, happy heart will find itself again.”

— Thomas Mann, tr. by Willard R. Trask, from “The Black Swan,” wr. c. 1954