Tag: poetic
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melancholy: the beauty of a tender sadness
There is a word in the English language that feels like a soft sigh of the soul: melancholy. Not quite sadness. Not quite longing. Not quite nostalgia. And yet, somehow, all of them at once. Melancholy is a gentle kind of sadness, one that doesn’t overwhelm or consume, but lingers quietly. It’s the feeling of…