Venus

Words can light fires in the minds of men

[paper-wounds]

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Jay Vespertine; not from a book but from an actual conversation.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Jay Vespertine; not from a book but from an actual conversation.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Jay Vespertine; not from a book but from an actual conversation.

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer, featured in "Letters to Felice,"

[old-school-romantics]

- D.Deane

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Jay Vespertine (Inspired from Caitlyn Siehl)

[seraphinesaintclair]

Lola Ridge, “A Worn Rose”

[seraphinesaintclair]

Sara Teasdale, “Sappho I”

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— diksha suman (moon poet)

[louisegluck]

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal [ID in alt text]

[astriloquum]

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a diary entry featured in "The Diaries of Franz Kafka,"

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Auguste Rodin

L'éternelle idole, 1889

[lunamonchtuna]

— Mary Oliver, from The Gardener (via lunamonchtuna)

[fortunatessera]

This year

I won't apologize for being me

Thanks