"

There was no temptation. Temptation lives in silence;
It torments anchorites, oppresses saints,

And on a midnight in May it cries as piercingly,
As a wounded eagle to the young nun.

"

Anna Akhmatova, “Three Verses” (trans. Judith Hemschemeyer)
 
 

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"I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say."

T.S. Eliot (via dulcetdecember)

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