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[lifeinpoetry]

“i feel best when i’m not looked at i wish no one could see me i wish i didn’t have a body”

— Alyssa Froehling, from “emetophobia,” published in Alien Mouth

[quotemadness]

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Syliva Plath

[89words]

“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.”

— Thomas Hardy - ’Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics, 2003)‘ 

[thespilledquotes]

People often forget the eroticism of connecting through mind & spirit. The way a body tingles when its soul has been stroked by another's. The comfort when someone not only understands you, but feels you.

— Meredith Marple

[thehopefulquotes]

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.

— Irvin D. Yalom

[sabahtude]

“I’d rather be homesick than be at home.”

— Friedrich Kunath, Elephant Magazine, issue 13.

[bnmxfld]

“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time.”

— Franz Kafka

[stay-close]

He was frightened of everything, it sometimes seemed, and he hated that about himself. Fear and hatred, fear and hatred: often, it seemed that those were the only two qualities he possessed. Fear of everyone else; hatred of himself.

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

[89words]

“Understand, I’ll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I’ll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows, with only this one dream: You come too.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke 

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“I dreamt of you last night—as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Nabokov, 12 January 1924, Letters to Véra, ed. and transl. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“For a moment you are asleep in my heart. What more can I ask for? I am rocking inside your breaths. I have turned into the words you whisper. When I speak to you, I clothe my heart with your heart. When you tighten and tremble into love, these dreams wander into distant fields and leave no tracks, I have never been so lost, I have never been so certain of where I am.”

— Richard Jackson, from “The Story,” Broken Horizons (Press 53, 2018)

[mournfulroses]

“I love you, and I’m conscious of you all the time.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Katherine Mansfield c. January 1921

[theclassicsreader]

“‘I think that one of these days,’ he said, 'you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there.’”

— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

[darlingvita]

“I want to talk and talk and talk — About music; about love;”

— Virginia Woolf in a letter to Ethel Smyth c. February 1930

[quotemadness]

“I can’t tell you how piercingly and endlessly I think about you.”

— Virginia Woolf

[woolfdaily]

“I could only think of you as being very distant and beautiful and calm. A lighthouse in clean waters.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West c. January 1927

[quotemadness]

“I think it’s foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary—you’re happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life. Happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”

— Georgia O’Keeffe