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Into the fire with my love letters! Into the fire, quickly with my papers! Since flames inspired you flames shall be your shroud!

Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, from Letters; Ariadne's Thread: Polish Women Poets (tr. by Susan Bassnett & Piotr Kuhiwczak)

polish-spirit :

Kaplica św. Jadwigi Śląskiej w Wiśle (lata 30).

Radovan Pavlovski, from Maya: III; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)

Atanas Vangelov, from Anatomy of a Flower; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)

We dug a heart out of a heart and our mutual pain molded us into lovers in the evening fires of autumn.

Jovan Kotevski, from Love and Death; The Fourth Letter; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)

Radovan Pavlovski, from Maya: I; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)

I looked for you in the endless fear of stars which falling touch nothing in space.

Petre Andreevski, from The Fourth Letter; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)

lilium--bosniacum :

bosnian coffee set appreciation moodboard (x)

vintage-ukraine :

Man from Kyiv, 1910

I cannot hate you: so light my hurricane heart.

Salvatore Quasimodo, from Woods Sleep (tr. by Jack Bevan)

Petre Andreevski, from The Fourth Letter; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)

Petre Andreevski, from The Fourth Letter; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)

whosafraidofvirginiawoolf :

'You speak like a heroine,' said Montoni, contemptuously; 'we shall see whether you can suffer like one.'

The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe

archaeoart :

Ancient tombs in Hijaz, Saudi Arabia, circa 1947.

Summer mourns prayerless.

Mihail Rendžov, from Summer; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)

Jovan Strezovski, from Sleeping Angel; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)

I've known and understood all autumn fogs Only you escape me and remain dark

Mateja Matevski, from A Dark Circlet of Fogs; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)