Languageenfleur - Ominous Or Premonitory?

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Langston Hughes, from Selected Poems; “Quietness,”

“And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”

— J.D. Salinger  (via quotemadness)

Oscar Wilde, from At Verona

Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

“—I have a childlike heart”

— Sappho, Fragments (tr. by Mary Barnard)

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

—The Picture of Dorian Gray - O. Wilde

“…dusk is falling, I love you.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, in a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters Summer 1926: Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Rilke (via loveage-moondream)

“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”

— Egon Schiele (via kittencrimson)