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[heavensghost]

Very clever people can hear dreams

[shisasan]

Gustav Dore’s 19th-century illustration of Dante’s Paradise

[heavensghost]

[heavensghost]

From Oxygen, by Mary Oliver

[soracities]

Wisława Szymborska, from “Sky”, View with a Grain of Sand (trans. Stanisław Barańczak & Clare Cavanagh)  

[quotemadness]

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.

Irvin Yalom (via quotemadness)

[inkursion]

Seen at @angeliceyezzz

[weltenwellen]

Jennifer Willough, from “The Sun Is Still A Part Of Me”, Beautiful Zero: Poems

[metamorphesque]

— Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, December 1881

[text ID: I must endure bad times and the waters will rise, possibly as high as the lips and possibly even higher, how can I know beforehand? But I’ll fight my fight and sell my life dearly and try to win and pull through.]

[metamorphesque]

— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

[quotemadness]

“She picked up the broken pieces of her life and created something beautiful. From that day forth she shone like the sun and changed the definition of broken.”

— Randall M. Gore

[quotemadness]

“I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it – and that’s all I’ve got.”

— Sabrina Ward Harrison

[euo]

Tracey Emin I think of you sometimes, sometimes I dream of you in my sleep.

[shisasan]

𝙵𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝙽𝚒𝚎𝚝𝚣𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎, 𝚃𝚑𝚞𝚜 𝚂𝚙𝚘𝚔𝚎 𝚉𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊 [𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟾𝟹]

[quotemadness]

“And if I show you my dark side, will you still hold me tonight?”

— Pink Floyd

[luthienne]

Franz Wright, from God's Silence; "Four Poems of Youth”

[Text ID: Do you know this terror—not to remember?]

[keremelcream]

— Rumi