Condensation

[lifeinpoetry]

“Am I the sun inside me?”

— Kazim Ali, from “Dear Rumi,” The Far Mosque

[quotemadness]

“You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only.”

— Anne Frank (via quotemadness)

[buttonpoetry]

“You ever decide by not deciding?”

— Neil Hilborn, from The Future

[quotemadness]

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

— Stephen King (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

“People’s souls are like gardens. You can’t turn your back on someone because his garden’s full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.”

— Nancy Farmer (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”

— David Foster Wallace (via quotemadness)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“With the fragile metal of her voice, she charms the sweet milky night and the pale silence.”

— Paul Valéry, tr. by Hilary Corke, from “White,” wr. c. September 1919

[quotemadness]

“We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we’re falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.”

— Jude Law

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“You may think that this is my surrender to some quieter form of love but what I am learning is the lust of God, the seas which boil in the bones,”

— Gwendolyn MacEwen, from The Selected Poems; “Lust in the Blood,”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Inner peace now. How strange it is. I have started again to dream of a new life, of expansion. I dream of voyages, new lives, new relationships.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947

[quotemadness]

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[quotemadness]

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin (via quotemadness)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Your eyes reflect the splendour of the storm.”

— Renée Vivien, from So Much Love of Death: A Crown of Violets; “Victory,”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“We grow. It hurts at first.”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Witch Burning,” c. October 1961

[quotemadness]

“You should love for no reason.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[quotemadness]

“Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.”

— C.S. Lewis

[quotemadness]

“Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz (via quotemadness)