“Kind Words Can Be Short And Easy To Speak, But Their Echoes Are Truly Endless.”

Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

Oscar Wilde, from At Verona

“—I have a childlike heart”

— Sappho, Fragments (tr. by Mary Barnard)

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Ottis P. Lord written c. March 1878

“When we’re most intense—who’ll flinch?”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Prose; “Phrases,”

“Incense, with its sweetsmelling perfume and high-ascending smoke, can be compared to a sincere, earnest prayer which, enkindled by the fire of concentration, rises up as a pleasant offering.”

—

Anna Riva;

Magic With Incense and Powders: 850 Rituals and Uses With Chants and Prayers

(via liminalblessings)

“You came into my life — not as one comes to visit … but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Nabokov, Letters to Véra, ed. and transl. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)

Sasha Chorny, translated by Bernard Meares, from “My Love,” written c. 1919