love & literature

a collection of verses and quotations.

[macrolit]

[moonchild-fawn-deactivated20150]

[loveandliterature]

love & literature turned 10 today!

[ottersunday]

[loveandliterature]

“i can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. it’s written so deeply upon my mind i can almost taste the ink.” - burial rites, hannah kent

[browndresswithwhitedots]

[loveandliterature]

“again i resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.” -wendell berry, sabbaths

[prettystuff]

[loveandliterature]

“the Easter message tells us that our enemies, sin, the curse, and death, are beaten. ultimately they can no longer start mischief. they still behave as though the game were not decided, the battle not fought; we must still reckon with them, but fundamentally we must cease to fear them any more . . . one thing still holds, and only this one thing is really serious, that Jesus is the Victor.” - dogmatics in outline, karl barth 

[grace--upon--grace]

[loveandliterature]

“my sorrow, when she’s here with me,   thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree;   she walks the sodden pasture lane.”

- robert frost, excerpt from “my november guest”

[delamontee-deactivated20201224]

[loveandliterature]

“i dreamt of you this night. i saw you with some kind of hallucinatory clarity, and, all morning long, have been going around in a sort of cloud of tenderness for you. i felt your hands, your lips, hair, everything – and if i’d been able to dream such dreams more often, my life would’ve been easier. you are my love.”- vladimir nabokov, excerpt from ‘letters to vera’

[amusteredmind]

[loveandliterature]

“i love you, whether or not i do.— edna st vincent millay, sonnets

[rubyandmoon-blog]

[loveandliterature]

“my library was-- all libraries are-- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren’t binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real. to read, to think, to trace words back to their origins real or presumed; to invent; to dare to imagine.” - andre brink, the rights of desire

[andantegrazioso-deactivated2018]

[loveandliterature]

love & literature turned 8 today!

[tennesseewillams]

- vita sackville-west to virginia woolf, 1926

[sexymotorslifestyle]

[loveandliterature]

“i can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” - flannery o’connor, habit of being

[simpleisnewluxury]

[loveandliterature]

"there must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but i don't know many of them. whenever i'm sad i'm going to die, or so nervous i can't sleep, or in love with somebody i won't be seeing for a week, i slump down just so far and then i say: 'i'll go take a hot bath.'" - sylvia plath, the bell jar

[adrenaline]

[loveandliterature]

“so it returns. think you’re escaping and run into yourself. longest way round is the shortest way home.” - james joyce, ulysses

[folklifestyle]

[loveandliterature]

“…and i am out with lanterns, looking for myself.” - emily dickinson, the letters of emily dickinson