[whenharrymetsallys]

Let him taste the misery of want.

The Renegado, Philip Massinger

[anamorphosis-and-isolate]

It’s not you. It’s anyone. Sometimes I don’t want anyone around. Some afternoons I lie on my bed and the light comes through the shutters on the floor and I think I never want to leave my own room.

Joan Didion, Run River (via anamorphosis-and-isolate)

[diverse-reads]

“Let’s buy you a book” is hands down the best phrase in the world I will love you FOREVER

[thequotejournals]

You’ll understand why storms are named after people.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

if the ocean can calm itself, so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air.

Nayyirah Waheed, “Meditation” (via wnq-writers)

[readingbukowski]

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature.

Julian Barnes, ‘The Sense of an Ending‘. (via ablogwithaview)

[wordsnquotes]

I am going to marry somebody that makes me feel like a poem.

Lee Smith, Fair and Tender Ladies (via wordsnquotes)

[watchoutforintellect]

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

Anne Sexton - from A Self-Portrait in Letters  (via rojosinti)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I want to read books. I want to write books. I’ll write books in the woods. Life is that which gives you desires, but no rights for the fulfillment of desires. It is all pretty mean—but you still can do what you want, and what you want is right, when you want honestly.”

— Jack Kerouac, from a letter to Allen Ginsberg c. October 1945

[barbaracarnevale]

[sangatte-deactivated20201102]

Barbara Carnevale

[ketterdamns]

If you’re going to be sad, you may as well be sad in Paris

Victor Hugo  (via wokecourfeyrac)

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

She was born to be adored of poets.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[devilmuse]

I want to be dating a guy who reads his own poetry to me while I’m taking a bath

[wnq-writers]

My ideal lover: Intelligence, with a touch of insanity

Nicholas A Browne | Haiku 481 (via mrsclarkkent)

[wordsnquotes]

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

It takes a special someone to see darkness inside of someone and not condemn them.

Shannon Messenger, Everblaze: Keeper of the Lost Cities  (via flower-film)

[asimplelibrary-deactivated20181]

I am a professor at a beautiful university. I wear tweed jackets and carry a satchel. I spend my weekends marking papers in bed while my partner brings me imported Italian coffee and pastries on a tray. My dog is there. Everything is good.