Words, Words, Words

A quote for every day in the rainbow

[thespilledquotes]

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951

[bookmania]

“For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[lustingupon]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Georgy Chulkov, from “Autumnal Love,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

[barcarole]

“Sometimes she didn’t think. Sometimes a person sat there being. She didn’t have to do. Being was already doing.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Departure of the Train”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

[virginiadre]

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”

— Cynthia Ozick (via misswallflower)

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

[weltenwellen]

Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

[shisasan]

𝙵𝚢𝚘𝚍𝚘𝚛 𝙳𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚢𝚎𝚟𝚜𝚔𝚢, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝙺𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚣𝚘𝚟 (𝟷𝟾𝟾𝟶)

[twoheadedfawnn]

nick cave, the red hand files

[bibliophile]

[soracities]

“The stars have already opened their autumn eyes.”

— Kōyō, from Haiku: An Anthology of Japanese Poems (edited by Stephen Addiss, Fumiko Yamamoto and Akira Yamamoto)

[bookmania]

Excerpt from Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle

[belovedhestia]

“When I love I become liquid light”

— Nizar Qabbani, from “When I Love” (via weltenwellen)

[clavierissimo]

Music expresses that which cannot be said in words and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo (via clavierissimo)

[bookmania]

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber (via bookmania)

[eugenialoli]

“Pillars“ by Eugenia Loli

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