Kafka

“It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Humiliated and Insulted

“I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for living.”

— Steven Spielberg (via meineluft)

“What thing worthy of love can be found in me?”

— Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milena

Mikhail Kuzmin, from “The Summer’s Love,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

T. S. Eliot — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Anna Akhmatova, from "Don't Frighten Me" in Selected Poems

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms (via philosophybits)

Andrée Chedid, from “Terre et Poésie,” quoted in Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (edited by Kamal Boullata).

Seraphine Saintclair, “The Winglessness”

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Poem of the End: V (tr. by Elaine Feinstein)