“I don’t want to set things on fire anymore. / That’s all. That’s all.”
— Darshana Suresh, from “Birds on a Power Line,” Howling at the Moon
(via star-eaters)
Etikett: quote
“Velvet that is black and soft as sin,”
— G. K. Chesterton, from The Collected Works; “Lepanto,” c. 1911
The past I remember time cannot erase / The letter you wrote me it was written in shame / And I know that your conscience still echo’s my name
Rock, Salt and Nails by Bob Dylan
It’s fine, that all’s black,
That life’s – a cursed hell.
O, that you’d come back –
I was so certain, as well.
Anna Akhmatova, from White Night.
[Dionysos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes, cheeks like wine.
Euripides, from ‘The Bakkhai’ (translated by Anne Carson)
“Listen, soul. I am afraid. I feel doubt insinuating its way into me.”
— Albert Camus, from Youthful Writings; “The Moorish House,” wr. c. 1932
The heavenly maiden bathed in honey and gold elixir, she smelled of Arabian jasmine and honeysuckle. Her eyes were like garnets glistening in the sunlight and her skin was like the golden hour in Jerusalem.
“I’m a romantic and that’s the tragedy.”
— N.M.Sanchez (via wnq-writers)
As for me, my heart is oppressed in a way that astonishes me, and I wallow in a bottomless melancholy,
Gustave Flaubert, from a letter to George Sand written c. August 1870
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