Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet

“I can’t think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you, than to live and love life more without them.”

— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe 

“Incense, with its sweetsmelling perfume and high-ascending smoke, can be compared to a sincere, earnest prayer which, enkindled by the fire of concentration, rises up as a pleasant offering.”

—

Anna Riva;

Magic With Incense and Powders: 850 Rituals and Uses With Chants and Prayers

(via liminalblessings)

― Emily Dickinson

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Sorrow”, Collected Poems

“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)

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

Charles Baudelaire, from The Flowers of Evil: Poems; "The Possessed,"

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

Beautiful Japanese nature-related diction, from Haruhiko Kindaichi’s The Japanese Language (translated by Umeyo Hirano):

hana-gumori — a hazy sky in the cherry-blossom season; literally, flower cloudiness harumeku — to become more like spring akimeku — to become more like autumn kareru — the death of plants edaburi — the way a tree branches hanafubuki — flowers falling in the wind like snowflakes konoshita-yami — darkness cast by dense trees kaerizaki — the unseasonable blooming of flowers; also the second blooming of spring flowers in autumn yosakura — the cherry blossoms viewed at night by torchlight; literally, night sakura

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House