quotes i like

Ken (she/her) I really like finding quotes in books so I thought I would share some with you main blog: @dykewallpaper [ID: icon is Biff the fish from Phineas and Ferb, header is a grey brick wall. End of ID]

[myfavoritepoesy]

who carved Love

and placed him by

this fountain

thinking

he could control such fire

with water

-zenodotos’ a statue of eros

[myfavoritepoesy]

o god, i could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that i have bad dreams

-shakespeare’s hamlet

[myfavoritepoesy]

wine comes in the mouth

and love comes in at the eye;

that’s all we know for truth

before we grow old and die.

i lift the glass to my mouth,

i look at you, and i sigh.

-w.b. yeats

[myfavoritepoesy]

therefore the Love which is doth bind

but Fate so enviously debars,

is the conjunction of the kind,

and opposition of the stars.

-andrew marvell

[myfavoritepoesy]

i know now the span of my life. god help me!

-bram stoker’s dracula

[myfavoritepoesy]

dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

-tennyson

[myfavoritepoesy]

if poetry has passed him by, philosophy will take note of him

-oscar wilde on walt whitman

[myfavoritepoesy]

i pass from light into the kingdom of eternal night

-dante's the inferno

[myfavoritepoesy]

dreams live as long as the dreamers do

-noor unnahar

[myfavoritepoesy]

pale anguish keeps the gate, and the warden is despair

-oscar wilde's the ballad of reading gaol

[linkinmoon]

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[myfavoritepoesy]

[ID: text reads, "The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther." End of ID]

[myfavoritepoesy]

we’re all here in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars

-oscar wilde’s lady windermere’s fan

[myfavoritepoesy]

he was always confident, but never more than where lords feared an assassin’s knife from their own followers.

-robert jordan, the great hunt

[ekohl]

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”

-Dracula

[wedarkacademia]

“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.” ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[myfavoritepoesy]

‘I have indeed met with wonders this day! they said they were not angels, but knights - yet to me they seemed fairer than all the hosts of heaven.’

-sir percival, roger green’s king arthur and his knights of the round table

[moonandnightss]

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality