Portugese

“Cerebral, bewitching, and heartless.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, describing Lou Andreas-Salomé, from a letter to Paul Rée written c. September 1879 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“I am in a quiet way blooming.”

— May Sarton, Recovering: A Journal

if not, winter, sappho (tr. anne carson)

T.S. Eliot, from “III. The Fire Sermon”, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

Trista Mateer, Honeybee

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (via quotespile)

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Ottis P. Lord written c. March 1878

“Sometimes I get up early and even my soul is wet. Far away the sea sounds and resounds. This is a port. Here I love you. Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.”

— Pablo Neruda, from “Here I Love You” (via oofpoetry)

“Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne