I may look alright, but if you were to look more closely you wouldn’t find a single healthy bit in me.
Anton Chekhov, from Complete Plays of Anton Chekhov; “The Anniversary,”
Etikett: poetry
“I want to be a woman who can face her own face,”
— L.I. Henley, from “Everywhere is the Finding of Not Wings,” published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry
You may think I’m small, but I have a universe in my head.
Yoko Ono
I want you to know that your femaleness
is not weakness. I want you to wearyour heart like a crown.
—
E. Kristin Anderson, from “Poem for My Niece on Her Brother’s First Birthday,” published in FIVE:2:ONE
“I would make my home, with joy and gladness, in a dark forest.”
— Alexander Pushkin, tr. by Alan Shaw, from “God Grant, My Reason Ne’er Betray Me,”
D.H. Lawrence, from New & Collected Poems; “Embankment at Night, Before the War,” (x)
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different
Coco Chanel
““If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.””
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
Reason forbids, but passion urges strongly—
Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“Those big tragic eyes of her–”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, from “No Exit & Three Other Plays,” published c. 1949 (via violentwavesofemotion)
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