“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
— Jane Austen
“When we’re most intense—who’ll flinch?”
— Arthur Rimbaud, from Selected Poems & Prose; “Phrases,”
Mikhail Kuzmin, from “The Summer’s Love,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”
Oscar Wilde, from At Verona
“I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for living.”
— Steven Spielberg (via meineluft)
“Ne savez-vous point que vous êtes mon soleil pendant le jour et mon étoile pendant la nuit?”
“Know you not that you are my sun by day and my star by night?”
— Alexandre Dumas, La reine Margot
Sylvia Plath
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star / Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple
Anna Akhmatova, from "Don't Frighten Me" in Selected Poems
Trista Mateer, Honeybee