[naiadereverie]

Blanca Padilla in ‘the smokers’ series ph. by Bèla Adler

[oldwinesoultoo]

[paper-fairy]

“You seem already to belong to another world;”

— Mary Shelley, from “Mathilda,” originally published c. October 1812

[derangedrhythms]

Aware of you, chaotically.

Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953

[szlochy]

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[oditorie]

[poeticrose]

“Her tears had relieved and purified her heart,”

— Anton Chekhov, from The Complete Works of Anton Chekhov; “The Two Volodyas,”

[emptiness-statue]

[hapless-hollow]

“I lust your darkness.”

— Helaena C Moon

[yumusak]

“I do understand—and it is terrible.”

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written c. July 1915, featured in “Letters to Felice,”

[ciivll6]

[lallllune]

J'ai peur de voir des cauchemars

[derangedrhythms]

This is beautiful and terrible.

Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953

[talestalesof]

“When we’re most intense—who’ll flinch?”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Prose; “Phrases,” (via agooduniverse)

[soluksuret]

[feral-ballad]

Trista Mateer, from Aphrodite Made Me Do It

[Text ID: “You have to let something / go. You carry too much in your heart. / There’s no room for anything else.”]

[lifeinpoetry]

“Inside my head, the war is everywhere.”

— — Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser,” Time Is a Mother