Mikhail Kuzmin, From “The Summer’s Love,” Featured In “A Treasury Of Russian Verse,”

“I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.”

— Susan Sontag (b. 16 January 1933)

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Everybody knows that really intimate conversation can only take place between two or three. Even if there are only six or seven present, collective language begins to dominate.”

— Simone Weil, Waiting on God

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

Edith Sitwell, Fire of the Mind: The Complete Anthology of Edith Sitwell

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Cerebral, bewitching, and heartless.”

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

“You can’t betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.”

— Ed Harris

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"And Cain says, “When you split me and my brother in the womb, you did not divide us evenly. He got kindness, and I got longing. He got complacence, and I got ambition. I want to kill him sometimes. I think sometimes he wants to die.”

- Nathaniel Orion, "Hevel"