[violentwavesofemotion]

“I want to calm down, to rest, to outlive this nonsense.”

— Anne Sexton, from a letter to Dennis Farrell written c. June 1962 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[toky09]

“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame. How could you become new if you haven’t first become ashes?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra  (via wordsnquotes)

[flowerytale]

Louise Glück, from “Stars”, Poems: 1962–2020

[resqectable]

“Are you ever so sad that you can actually feel your heart ache.”

— Unknown

[geryone]

The Curious Thing, Sandra Lim

[luthienne]

“‘Do you fall in love often?’ Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.”

— Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

[flowerytale]

Louise Glück, from “Stars”, Poems: 1962–2020

[antigonick]

“I would long for you through worlds, worlds.”

— Izumi Shikibu, excerpt of “Even If I Now Saw You—”, trans. by Jane Hirshfield with Mariko Aratani in The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono No Komachi & Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

[stonelantern]

Winter tree by stonelantern

[cameos]

[philosophybits]

“If you know, recognize that you know. If you don’t know, realize that you don’t know. That is knowledge.”

— Confucius, Analects

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Lost Book Found (Jem Cohen, 1996)

[surqrised]

“Every word has consequences, every silence too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

[quotefeeling]

“No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.”

— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

[flowerytale]

Nikos Kazantzakis, from “Report to Greco”, tr. by P. A. Bien

[feral-ballad]

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Set Design”

[existential-celestial]

“This winter I am going to quieten my own heart.”

— Inger Christensen, tr. by Susanna Nied, from “Winter,” wr. c. 2009