And what will you do today, I wonder, / to my heart?
Mary Oliver, from Devotions: The Selected Poems; “The Softest of Mornings,”
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Fear God in your treatment of women.
Prophet Muhammad (S), Nahj al-Fasahah
“All dark, all bloody, my heart,”
— Charles Baudelaire, tr. by Paul Weinfield, from “A Voyage to Cythera,”
Let her pray, and sleep, and dream / Alone with her good angels,
John Keats, from The Complete Poems; “The Eve of St. Agnes,”
I felt and saw the night outside deep within me. Wind and wetness, autumn, bitter smell of foliage, scattered leaves of the elm tree.
Hermann Hesse, The Fairytales of Hermann Hesse (trans. Jack Zipes)
Your own black mind you shall fight the most.
Edith Södergran, from Poems, 1916; “Advice”
She always looked divinely frail and beautiful and regal.
Tarquin Olivier, describing Vivien Leigh, from “Vivien Leigh: A Biography,”
What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.
“There’s something soft in me— / we killed it and it’s rotting.”
— Cassandra de Alba, from “A Barbie Dream House But All the Dolls Are Kitchen Knives,” published in Underblong (via weltenwellen)
I looked for love in things that were not love.
Florence Welch, referring to what inspired her to write the song “Hunger,”
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