dixi et animam levavi

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” ― Sylvia Plath

[somewordsarebiggerthanothers]

[vile-lithium3]

[scribeherself]

loving me is a bit like looking into the sun. I don’t mean that I’m bright or golden; I mean that it’s absolute. It burns, it consumes, it leaves a mark. I can’t offer you a lukewarm affection. It’s either the entire ocean or a total drought.

[vile-lithium3]

[devils-queen]

666

[inkpressedpetals]

this is what best friends are for.

[thoughtkick]

“I was so afraid of hurting their feelings that I forgot that they could hurt mine too. And now that they have, I wonder if I’ve truly been alone all this time—I’ve just been too blind to see it.”

— Unknown

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. (1923-1927)

[roua-poemului]

“You have the blood of a poet. You have that and always will. You show, in the middle of savage things (that I like), the gentleness of your heart, that is so full of pain and light.”

— Federico García Lorca, from a letter to Miguel Hernàndez, wr. c. April 1933.

[nixscriptum]

[feral-ballad]

Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “Echo”

[pollen]

Czeslaw Milosz, from "Ars Poetica?"

[mournfulroses]

Paul Verlaine, from a poem titled "Lover's Chat", featured in 100 and One Poems by Paul Verlaine

[autumnoiir]

[vile-lithium3]

[my-dailydreams]

[enchantedbook]

'Vampire Hunter D' by Yoshitaka Amano