[mournfulroses]

Rafael Alberti, translated by Kenneth Rexroth, from "Homecoming Love in the Midst of the Sea,"

[superkursunaskr]

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Waves," originally published in 1931

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell written c. August 1908

[noctilucentis]

Beauty is Terror.

1. first elegy from the duine elegies, by rilke / 2 & 3. the secret history by donna tartt / 4. água viva by clarice lispector / 5. the brothers karamazov by dostoyevsky

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

But I still don't know how to hold your hand without reading the ugliness of my own, But I can't contain my soul from enveloping yours !

Web weaving about holding hands an emotion

{quotes:Mary Ruefle/uk/Francis Forever Song by Mitski/The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones by Natalie Diaz/Hélène Cixous, from “Olivier De Serres- A Single Passion Two Witnesses,” Love Itself: In the Letter Box (Polity Press, 2008) /uk /Saadi Youssef, from ‘Solos on the Oud’, Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa) }

[wandererinthestacks]

I choose to love you in silence. For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to love you in loneliness. For in loneliness no one owns you but me,

I choose to adore you from a distance. For distance will shield me from pain,

I choose to hold you in my dreams. For in my dreams, you have no end.

Rumi

Instagram: @solitudeismyeuphoria

[derangedrhythms]

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'

[shisasan]

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own [originally published 1929]

[metamorphesque]

— Vladimir Nabokov, Gods ("The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov")

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

[bakwaaas]

I think you carry the people you’ve loved with you forever, not in a ‘you can never get over them’ way but more like loving them changed you and it meant something and you have to make peace with that

[chillpotato]

- Margaret Atwood, from 'Eurydice: Selected Poems 1976-1986'

[mayonezli]

[find-the-beauty-within]

The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy

[priincessolivee-deactivated2025]

I tried to scroll past this. I really did

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— Miguel Hernández, from Selected Poems “Hunger is the Most Important Thing.”

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