Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“She was very private. I don’t think anyone will ever be able to totally capture her—she seemed so evanescent.”
— Joseph Mitchell
Joy Ladin, from “Forgetting“
“She never forgot that day; it was so bright and golden and fair, so free from shadow and so lavish of blossom.”
― L. M. Montgomery, from “Anne of Green Gables.”
Portugese
/nefilēbätä/
noun a cloud walker; an individual who lives in the “clouds” of her own imagination or dreams.
“Cerebral, bewitching, and heartless.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, describing Lou Andreas-Salomé, from a letter to Paul Rée written c. September 1879 (via violentwavesofemotion)
“Tell me, How does it feel with my teeth in your heart?”
— Euripides, Medea
Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”
“I do not think I’m easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I’m not anything that you think I am.”
— Syd Barrett (via quotemadness)