Sometimes I cannot hope. I try always to hope but sometimes I cannot.
Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Works; “A Farewell To Arms,”
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Come, be my love in the wet woods, come,
Robert Frost, from The Complete Poems; “A Line-Storm Song,”
“—I have a childlike heart”
— Sappho, Fragments (tr. by Mary Barnard)
“[I was dreaming of you but]
just then
Dawn, in her golden sandals [woke me]”— Sappho, from Sappho: Poems & Fragments (tr. Josephine Balmer)
“…I have
Immortal longings in me.”— William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (via lesgardenias)
“The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself”
— Albert Camus (via harrlson-wells)
You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.
“his cheeks are dusted with gold from the kisses of gods / he was always apollo’s favorite.”
— excerpt from Leo | published in STARBIRTH chapbook by j.d. (via cashmerebambi)
You are a language I want
to moan in.
– Lora Mathis, from “Primal Desire,” The Women Widowed to Themselves
But whom could she lean upon? She asked that question of the wild autumn winds.
Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “Orlando: A Biography,”
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