“I Look Around My Library Some Nights And I Do These Terrible Things To Myself: I Count Up The Books

“If it’s still in your mind, it is still in your heart.”

— Paulo Coelho

mary oliver, the pond

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Aphrodite, the queen of the senses, she, born of the sea-foam, is the luminousness of the gleaming senses, the phosphorescence of the sea, the senses become a conscious aim unto themselves; She is the gleaming darkness, she is the luminous night, she is goddess of destruction,”

— D. H. Lawrence, from Selected Poems and Writings; “The Lemon Gardens,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Trista Mateer, Honeybee

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via quotespile)

“I bloom within myself, inwardly,”

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

Marguerite Duras, The Lover