I swear by the moon I am most melancholy soft, and most outrageous sentimental.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “The Lamp and the Bell,” published c. 1921 (via violentwavesofemotion)
“It is to nature I want to return, it is my nature I want to accept.”
— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947
To taste the gentle moon,
John Keats, from The Complete Poems and Selected Letters; “Endymion,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
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I think we would me much more alive if we dared ourselves to recognize that we are not obligated to know who we are at every given moment.
Jorge Bucay, Argentine gestalt psychotherapist, psychodramatist (1949–)
original: “Creo que estaremos mucho más vivos si nos atrevemos a darnos cuenta de que no estamos necesariamente obligados a saber en todo momento quienes somos.” (via fyp-psychology)
There are a few things in life so beautiful they hurt: swimming in the ocean while it rains, reading alone in empty libraries, the sea of stars that appear when you’re miles away from the neon lights of the city, bars after 2am, walking in the wilderness, all the phases of the moon, the things we do not know about the universe, and you.
Beau Taplin, “And You” (via themotivationjournals)
Titania (Anita Louise) and the faeries in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)
“She was intelligent, and intelligent women mixed literature and poetry with love,”
— Anaïs Nin, from “Delta Of Venus,” originally published c. August 1977