“She sighs and dreams and thrills and glows,”
— Harold Monro, from Before Dawn (Poems & Impressions); “Milk for the Cat,” (via honeymoonphantasmagoria)
Etikett: quote
But softer than the breath of summer / Was the kiss she gave to me.
James Joyce, from The Selected Poems of James Joyce; “Song,”
I am alone in my room, between two worlds.
Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,”
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
“The Bait”, John Donne
“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
— James Dean (via quotemadness)
So alive, so beautiful,
yet so tormented;
Osip Mandelstam, tr. by Robert Chandler, from “You Stand In My Path,”
“I could live almost completely in imagination.”
— Louise Glück, from Poems 1962-2012 (via nomfacesplorar)
I still haven’t come to my senses,
Anna Akhmatova, from a diary entry written c. January 1959
And
Her soul!
Her soul is consumed by this longing!
Sappho, excerpt of Atthis (tr. by George Theodoris)
The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.
Angela Carter
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