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
{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}
Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem
Clarice Lispector, from Água Viva; translated by Stefan Tobler
Text ID: fragmented as I am and the moments so fragile—
“The bowl of wild roses. The English knives and forks. Greek cigarettes. The battered and sea-stained notebook in which I rough out my poems.”
— Lawrence Durrel, from Prospero’s Cell: and Reflections on a Marine Venus (1945)
I’m so happy to be alive
I am DRUNK! So fun
Margaret Atwood, “Thoughts from Underground”, Selected Poems: 1965-1975
Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust