Alice Notley, The Art Of Poetry No.116

Marta Orlowska

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov

5 April, 1927 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

All mythological ideas are essentially real, and far older than any philosophy. Like our knowledge of physical nature, they were originally perceptions and experiences. In so far as such ideas are universal, they are symptoms or characteristics or normal exponents of psychic life, which are naturally present and need no proof of their truth.

— Carl Jung

Clarice Lispector, from Água Viva; translated by Stefan Tobler

Text ID: All of me is writing to you and I feel the taste of being and the taste-of-you...

“—I want to change: I want to stop fear’s subtle / guidance of my life—”

— Frank Bidart, from Half-light: Collected Poems; “California Plush” (via loires)

Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

’Crenaia, The Nymph of the Dargle’ by Frederic Leighton, 1880

from @elyanna on ig . “مثل الطيور غادرت لكي تعود”

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from  “Women who Run with the Wolves,” published in 1992