Odysseus Elytis, from The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis (2004); “Axion Esti,” (x)
“It is to nature I want to return, it is my nature I want to accept.”
— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947
“It seems I’ve stopped speaking with my voice. Part of me fell asleep and just watches.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa (via pavellaning)
Mila Stepanova
“June was white. I see the fields white with daisies, and white with dresses; and tennis courts marked with white. Then there was wind and violent thunder. There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, “Consume me". That was at midsummer.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via berthemorisot)
Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.
Mooji
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Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via wordsnquotes)
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Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul, There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (via occasional-wolf-on-caffeine)
meet me in paradise ₊˚.༄
“Cover me with soft Earth.. jasmine, lilies and myrtle; and when they grow above me.. they will breathe the fragrance of my Heart into space.”
— Kahlil Gibran
Heaven-invading hills are drowned
In wide moving waves of mist,
Phlox before my door are wound
In dripping wreaths of amethyst.
-Sara Teasdale, White Fog
“The scent of blossom, morning sweetness, heavenly felicity.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Carl Wildman, from “Zorba the Greek,” wr. c. 1946
On the evening breeze, a lullaby, low and sweet // Part 1
foggy beach days are the best beach days ☁️
“I came from the sea and to the sea / I would return, to be immersed in her story, / ever lost and everlasting.”
— Nina Cassian, from Life Sentence; “Evolution” (via seaymphea)
“She was intelligent, and intelligent women mixed literature and poetry with love,”
— Anaïs Nin, from “Delta Of Venus,” originally published c. August 1977