emilie

[pllysko]

I tell everybody im good cause wtf they going to do if I’m not

[ko-zna]

[the-velvet-year]

[antigonick]

“She goes on thinking something just over your shoulder. This could be the last day before you lose her. But what’s the use of saying one thing or another? When what she’s really after is to wander.”

— Alice Oswald, excerpt of “Rambling Rose”, from Weeds and Wild Flowers

[7tny]

[thoughtkick]

“I wanna live not just survive.”

— Unknown

[mournfulroses]

“And how horribly easy it is to be hurt. I am being hurt all day, & hurt by the tiniest & most subtle things. And the self, even the wounded self, is hidden from so many.”

— Dylan Thomas, from a letter to Pamela Johnson c. March 1934

[faithfuldesire]

“As if she were a spirit, as if she were no longer of the material world.”

— D. H. Lawrence, from “The Rainbow,” originally publc. c. 1915

[mournfulroses]

George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley, from Collected Poems; “Manthos Paskalis Among the Roses,”

[mournfulroses]

Yehuda Amichai, tr. by Assia Gutmann, from a poem titled “Love Song,”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Long after you have stopped laughing, I can hear your laugh running up and down my veins–and yet–are we a dream?”

— Katherine Mansfield, from The Collected Stories

[quotemadness]

“I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”

— Joanne Harris

[neckkiss]

“I miss you”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Somebody inside of me has always tried, with all his strength, to be nobody.”

— Albert Camus, from a notebook entry featured in Notebooks (1951-1959)

[lifeinpoetry]

“I was— am— terrified of being owned. By a god or a man or a child or a place. By anyone or anything but myself.”

— Brenna Womer, from “Empire Blue,” Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance

[luthienne]

Ada Limón, Carrying: Poems; “Cargo”

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

“I was looked at, but I wasn’t seen.”

- Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding