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favorite love poems

The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glück

The Kiss by Sara Teasdale

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare

Our Story by William Stafford

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats

Why do I love You, Sir? by Emily Dickinson

Her Voice by Oscar Wilde

Love at First Sight by Wisława Szymborska

Echo by Christina Rossetti

Castile by Louise Glück

Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

[21/100] days of productivity

Slowly but surely, I'm making an analogical version of my Storygraph. A journal dedicated to tbr lists, monthly wrap-ups, favorite books of the year, etc.

Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student: Vol. I, 1926-27

Louise Glück, from "Midsummer" in Poems 1962-2012

[20/100] days of productivity

Worked on my Substack, started reading White Nights by Fëdor Dostoevskij and listened to Aly and Aj's new album.

Treating myself to a cup of Greek yoghurt, blueberries and redcurrants while reading White Nights by Fëdor Dostoevskij.

Summer is here. Time to carry thick books and read them at the park, eat something refreshing and delicious, go on long walks, admire the pretty flowers and get your daily dose of vitamin D.

[19/100] days of productivity

Finally finished reading Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates. Omg. So dark and intense! I'm so glad it is over. Now I've just started White Nights by Fëdor Dostoevskij. As for other stuff, I washed my black clothes and went to the grocery store. Pretty casual day.

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Let go of the idea of winning or losing. In the game of life, the most important thing is just showing up and doing your best.”

— Unknown

sunday / working at the café :0

[18/100] days of productivity

Did a lot of reading. I'm almost finished with Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates. Such a "traumatic" read, so dark and uncomfortable, but beautifully written. Worked on my Substack. Then went for a little walk at the park.

Summer hopefuls 🍓

It's an ambitious list, so I don't know how many of them I'll manage to read till September.

But I'm up for the challenge!

Paperbacks:

• White Nights, Fëdor Dostoevskij

• Daisy Miller, Henry James

• Mr Salary, Sally Rooney

• Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

• Women in love, D.H. Lawrence

• Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe

• Sappho of Lesbos, Alexander Trocchi

• Lady, Thomas Tryon

• The lady of the camellias, Alexander Dumas (fils)

• Senility, Italo Svevo

• Pillars of the earth by Ken Follett or The name of the rose by Umberto Eco...if I can manage! Not both obv 😅

eBooks:

• A little larger than the entire universe, Fernando Pessoa

• The honey suckle, Gabriele D'Annunzio

• A lover's discourse, Roland Barthes (paused, need to continue this!)

• Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

• Sonnets to Duse and other poems, Sara Teasdale

• The book of the city of ladies, Christine de Pizan

Started commonplacing and the first thing that came back is my writer's bump!

[17/100] days of productivity

Sunday...do I need to say more?

House chores, a long walk in nature, a little second hand book haul and then just relax for the rest of the day.

Virginia Woolf, from "Cinema" in The Selected Essays of Virginia Woolf

btw the majority of your life will be lived as a adult. yeah i don't make the rules. go have fun in your 40s or 70s or whatever. no one expects you to accomplish everything at 17 or 27. you've got time and in the meantime get some life experience, it will pay off

"The scars of the past shape us, but they need not define us; we have the power to write our own stories."

Simple pleasures: eating seasonal fruits, enjoying nature, going to art museums, getting lost in a book and savouring a cappuccino and croissant for breakfast.

[16/100] days of productivity

Finally decided to tackle reading something by Fernando Pessoa. I don't know why but his most popular one, The Book of Disquiet, intimidates me so much, so I decided to start with his poetry. So far so good. Exquisite, I should say!

[15/100] days of productivity

Did research for some articles for my Substack, wrote one, and read a lot while enjoying a delicious afternoon snack.

Sometimes you just need to go to the bookstore to be surrounded by books. It's exciting and relaxing at the same time. No need to buy anything. Just smelling them and stare at the pretty covers.

5 words I learned recently (as a non-native English speaker) that I particularly love:

ubiquitous, adj.

present, appearing, or found everywhere.

sizzling, adj.

very hot / very exciting or passionate.

red herring, noun

a clue or piece of information that is, or is intended to be, misleading or distracting.

oblivious, adj.

not aware of or concerned about what is happening around one.

unhinged, adj.

mentally unbalanced; deranged.

[14/100] days of productivity

I'm making progress with my process of copying my most valuable screenshots in my commonplace journal. Anything like quotes, interesting facts, useful websites, articles and so on.

I've started transcribing things from Sept. 2023 a couple of days ago, and now I just finished the ones from Oct. 2024!

This is such a therapeutic activity. I love it.

oh to be immortal and be able to consume every piece of knowledge and literature ever

She lay quite still, in a sort of sleep, in a sort of dream.

D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

from the introduction to emily wilsons translation of the iliad

OOTD + current read 🌷📖

[13/100] days of productivity

I've been really into this task of copying all the good stuff i screenshotted into my commonplace journal. The screenshots started in September 2023 and now I'm transcribing things from June 2024.

I'm slowly catching up!