Clementine Von Radics, From “Letter From Anaïs Nin To Clementine Von Radics”

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

“Abandon yourself (…) abandon your heavy legs to the floating meadows,”

— Mary Szybist, From Incarnadine: Poems; “The lushness of it” (via feral-ballad)

Michael Bazzett, from "Inside the Trojan Horse", The Echo-Chamber: Poems [transcript in ALT]

— triata mateer, honeybee

C.G. Jung, from Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East

Text ID: Man is free to decide whether "God" shall be a “spirit" or a natural phenomenon like the craving of a morphine addict, and hence whether "God" shall act as a beneficent or a destructive force.

“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)

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone.

— Gustave Flaubert in correspondence with George Sand; Croisset, 12 November 1866, Monday night, from Selected Letters

What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.

C.G. Jung

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