The Things People Don't Say

Our day will come & we'll have everything.

[vesselsofmercy]

“There are times when my longing for you overwhelms me […] so often I can think of you only with teeth clenched.”

- Franz Kafka, from Letters to Felice

[weltenwellen]

From the play “Vita & Virginia” written by Eileen Atkins in 1992, based on the letters and diaries of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

[wedge-of-poetry]

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks - so it sounded.

- Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Evening is kind,

Virginia Woolf, from The Selected Essays of Virginia Woolf; “Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car,” (via woolfdaily)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I look at you and my heart trembles,

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Eleni Samiou written c. October 1924 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[requiemforthepast]

i miss Amsterdam

[requiemforthepast]

feeling happy & not being scared to feel happy

[dailynietzsche]

“We should not let ourselves be tyrannized over by our fairest ability: that of elevating things into the ideal.”

—Human, All Too Human, “Assorted Opinions and Maxims,” §345 (excerpt).

[dailynietzsche]

“It is not how one soul approaches another but in how it distances itself from it that I recognize their affinity and relatedness.”

—Human, All Too Human, “Assorted Opinions and Maxims,” §251.

[vayena]

you: chill and healthy lifestyle

me: tormented by visions

[derangedrhythms]

“An unfinished feeling.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath; Appendix 15: ‘Rose & Percy Key (68)’

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Eyes shut. I am thinking of strawberry fields and enchanted waters.”

— Li Qingzhao, tr. by Jiaosheng Wang, from “A Partridge Sky for the Cassia Flower.”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Velimir Khlebnikov, tr. by Gary Kern, from “Washer Woman,” written c. 1921

[philosophybits]

“The purest heart is precisely the one most willing to comprehend his own guilt most deeply.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions

[sasoraye-deactivated20200129]

i want people to unknow me

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

The tenderness of winter always stays with me, never to be lost.

Li Qingzhao, tr. by Jiaosheng Wang, from “The Tenderness of Winter,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I have always found it risky to blossom–it takes time and work, and the process of shedding our skin is uncomfortable. But as they say, if it doesn’t challenge you, there’s no way it can change you. Magic does both. I believe that magic–that electric force within us and nature and the cosmos–can help us create a life that is nourishing and resilient. This magic, this space of light, dark, and shadow, grounds my life, and I work with it daily.”

Lisa Marie Basile, from “Light Magic for Dark Times,” published c. 2018