“I Can’t Think Of A Better Way To Revenge Someone Who Tried To Break You, Than To Live And Love Life

Do today what everyone else will do tomorrow. — Jean Cocteau, French poet

Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Véra

“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (via drearydoll)

“I shall live on dreams because reality is too cruel to me. I think I shall be the kind of person nobody understands,”

— Anaïs Nin, from ‘Linotte; The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1914-1920′

call down the hawk — maggie stiefvater

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms (via philosophybits)

“I bloom within myself, inwardly,”

— Gabriela Mistral, from Selected Prose & Prose Poems; “The Fig,”

Franz Wright, from Earlier Poems; “Poem in Three Parts: 2. The Wound”

[Text ID: The wound that never healed but learned to sing.]

Mikhail Kuzmin, from “The Summer’s Love,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera