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[justyourlilwords]

When Margaret Atwood said, "there is something in your throat that wants to get out and you won't let it." And then franz kafka wrote, "and what I really intended to say in the end is remains unsaid."

[quotefeeling]

“We often want it so badly that we ruin it before it begins. Overthinking. Fantasizing. Imagining. Expecting. Worrying. Doubting. Just let it naturally evolve”

— Unknown

[quotefeeling]

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”

— Ernest Hemingway

[thehopefulquotes]

“We met at the wrong time. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we’ll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot.”

— Unknown

[metamorphesque]

It’s not you I’ve lost, but the world.

a kind of loss (Ingeborg Bachmann), variations on the word love (Margaret Atwood), i am the brother of xx (Fleur Jaeggy), don’t go far off, not even for a day (Pablo Neruda), recreation (Audre Lorde), wuthering heights (Emily Brontë), i carry your heart with me (e. e. cummings)

[thehopefulquotes]

“Don’t kill flowers growing inside of you for someone who doesn’t appreciate the way you bloom.”

— Billy Chapata

[thehopefulquotes]

“I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception.”

— Unknown

[mournfulroses]

Yi Sang, from a poem titled "Poem XV," featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry

[theoptia]

Clarice Lispector, from Selected Cronicas

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”

— Jack Gilbert

[theoptia]

Ramón López Velarde, from Song of the Heart: Selected Poems; “Ill-Omened Return”

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by A. Poulin Jr., Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus

[metamorphesque]

tanka #1, Tathev Simonyan

[quotefeeling]

“For once I need to choose myself, or else I’m going to lose myself.”

— Veronika Jensen

[bloominnzz]

"I loved you, even though I knew you would never be mine"

White Nights - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[vikingvilen]

The monster I created to protect the child inside of me is difficult to manage...

---Marc Maron---

[thehopefulquotes]

“You can never really go back to the same waters. Not only are you no longer the same, but neither are the waters you left. The current has changed. The elements of nature have affected the stream. When you return, although it appears the same, it really is a different river and you are a different person. Therefore, you cannot cross the same river twice.”

— Alice Walker