“Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.”
— Sylvia Plath, 3 months before her suicide (via uiyi)
Etikett: poetry
“— because it was my crime to have no one on Earth who cared for me, or loved me.”
— Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to John Allan written c. January 1831
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Love yourself as much as you love your favorite band member
Fangirl
Something within me wants to break free.
Arthur Rimbaud, from a letter to Théodore de Banville wr. c. May 1870
How could your memory
fill my memory,
how is it your soul fills my soul?
Sophocles, from Elektra, trans. Anne Carson, ‘An Oresteia’.
Since I have no sweet flower to send you, I enclose my heart; a little one, sunburnt, half broken sometimes…
Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Mrs. Samuel Bowles, c. December 1858.
Unless you can be yourself, you won’t stay with anyone for long.
Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry wr. c. October 1954 featured in “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,”
I had a task…to become a star in the sky.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, from a diary entry written c. December 1913
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