If I Write What I Feel, Its To Reduce The Fever Of Feeling.

If I write what I feel, it’s to reduce the fever of feeling.

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

I will let u in on a lil secret. i cannot accept the fact that i exist

Watch the night sky closely enough and you might see the moon blink back at you 🌙

“I am many, do you understand? Countless ones, perhaps.”

— Marina Tsvetayeva, in a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters: Summer 1926

@the-acronomicon, these are the specifically Dutch folklore books I have on my shelves at the moment:

• Nieuwe Sprookjes van de Lage Landen (1974), it’s part two, I’m missing part one, and it bundles Dutch, Flemish and West-German fairy tales with clear sources. It’s pretty good!

• Nederlandse Volkssprookjes (1966/1977). A clearly sourced and sometimes annotated collection of fairy tales from oral tradition throughout the Netherlands. It even gives the exact province or region the story came from. These stories were recorded faithfully, not retold, so it’s a great resource, but slightly less of a fun read.

• Volksverhalen uit kleurrijk Nederland (1991). This is a series of six books that my father-in-law found me three of and I absolutely adore them. They include tales from Chinese, Jewish, Surinamese, Turkish, Moroccan, Indonesian, Indian and Dutch oral tradition, ordered in themes like “strange creatures” or “enchantments”. This is to show the diversity of the Netherlands as a country, because nowadays all these stories live within our borders and in our citizens’ past and present. The stories are clearly sourced, but they have clearly been written down with love for good presentation as well as faithfulness to the source, which makes them lovely to read. If you can get your hands on a copy, please do.