"The poem carries love and terror, or it carries nothing."

Jane Hirshfield, from “Like an Ant Carrying Her Bits of Leaf or Sand,” Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems
(via lifeinpoetry)

July 26th    + 2165    via    source

"Преданный"

a Russian word that means both “devoted” and “betrayed” (via me-and-the-words-i-choose)

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"you hear rain drops, i hear angels crying"

(via brokenheartedpoems)

July 18th    + 1894    via    source

"the heart is a violent muscle; it opens
& shuts.
the subject is death.
the subject is also laughter."

Jon Anderson, “creative writing 307,” poetry (june 1970)

July 7th    + 7059    via    source

"(..) psychologists say that
shame ruins your capacity for reverie by making cracks
in the mind where it is dangerous for thought to wander."

Anne Carson, Float; “Shame stack” 

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"1 July. Too tired."

Franz Kafka, Diaries   (via sheis)

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"Maybe it won’t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever."

Anonymous (via wordsnquotes)

June 30th    + 2348    via    source

"… if it’s selfless
love you’re looking for,
you’ve got the wrong goddess."

Margaret Atwood, from “Sekhmet, the Lion-Headed Goddess of War, Violent Storms, Pestilence, and Recovery from Illness, Contemplates the Desert in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Morning in the Burned House  (via dostevsky)

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"

and the ocean
seducing me
with its melodies

- come on my dear, plunge into the dark and let the water set you free

"

j.t // may the water set us free (via katefulleir)

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"I create entire romances in my dreams."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from ‘White Nights’ (via aegeane)

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