✍🏼 Leigh Botts's favorite writer in the world is a children books' author, Boyd Henshaw. Since Leigh was in second grade, he has been writing letters to "Dear Mr. Henshaw". At first because of his teacher's assignment, but then he keeps writing because his mother told him too. Being a famous writer, you would think that Henshaw would ignore these childish letters; one in particular containing a list of questions that Leigh made Henshaw answer. But funnily, Henshaw wrote back with his lis...| Fanda Classiclit
keg, You’ve been through so much in your early years, which shaped how you functioned in young adulthood. I’m glad you’ve finally understood that these are all malleable versions …| K E Garland
“My total forgetfulness and my absolute failure to recognize you today are but your absolute presence and my total absorption of yesterday. As much as you were — as much you are no longer. The absolute presence in reverse. Such a presence cannot but become such an absence. Everything yesterday, nothing today.” - Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), from a letter to Abram Vishnyak (1895-1943), in a Postface to “Nine Letters with a Tenth Kept Back and an Eleventh Received” (published letters...| - The Reader -
“My forgetting you is nothing but another title of nobility. A certificate of your past value.” - Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), from a letter to Abram Vishnyak (1895-1943), in “Nine Letters with a Tenth Kept Back and an Eleventh Received” “Моё забвение Вас — еще один патент на благородство. Удостоверение Вашего достоинства в прошлом.” (via finita–la–commedia)| - The Reader -
“What is it to forget a human being ? - It is to forget what one suffered through him …” - Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), from a letter to Abram Vishnyak (1895-1943), in “Nine Letters with a Tenth Kept Back and an Eleventh Received” “Что такое забыть кого-то ? Это забыть причиненные им страдания.” (via finita–la–commedia)| - The Reader -
“I thought your soul was greater and more worthy of mine, for I have loved you with all the love there is in my heart. You’re killing what life I still have, you blow everything away with one puff as though it were a mere spider’s web. I have nothing left in the world, nothing left in life. You love me, and yet you are killing me. You destroy my happiness and your own. I was beginning to amass in my heart so much love and happiness. You are crazy and I am crazier still. But don’t you ...| - The Reader -
“A telegram from you Dearest, best part of what I am… This morning after I had sent you a twenty-six-page [letter] registered—I came back & broke down again—There was so much more to say in the letter & I realized I hadn’t said it—that I felt no matter what I wrote I couldn’t make you feel what really was eating me up—killing me—Not your being away but that terrible lack of togetherness when you left—& I know that without that I am lost—…” - Alfred Stieglitz (1864-19...| - The Reader -
-- Rimbaud’s last known letter, dictated to his sister on November 9, 1891, the day before he died, in: “I promise to be good”, translated from the French by Wyatt Mason Monsieur le Directeur, I would...| Tumblr