Yusra Khan
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“So now my prayer is this:
You, my own deep soul,
trust me. I will not betray you.
My blood is alive with many voices
telling me I am made of longing.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Dann bete du, wie es dich dieser Iehrt,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)”
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You, my own deep soul,
trust me. I will not betray you.
My blood is alive with many voices
telling me I am made of longing.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Dann bete du, wie es dich dieser Iehrt,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)”
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“Sometimes I think you believe in me more than I do," said the boy
"You'll catch up," said the horse.”
― The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
"You'll catch up," said the horse.”
― The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
“I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? While the soul, after all, is only a window, and the opening of the window no more difficult than the wakening from a little sleep.”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
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