“If I Can Feel All This There Must Be Something Good In The Universe…”

2020, a summary

Gennady Aygi, tr. by Peter France, from “The People Are a Temple.”

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse on translating Abdulla Pashew's "Resurrection" (essay here, full poem here) [ID'd]

“And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”

— J.D. Salinger  (via quotemadness)

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

There was a star riding through clouds one night and I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Annotated)

“IPHIGENIA : I shall wash blood with blood to get rid of the defilement—”

— Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians (tr. by Anne Carson)

“Sometimes I get up early and even my soul is wet. Far away the sea sounds and resounds. This is a port. Here I love you. Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.”

— Pablo Neruda, from “Here I Love You” (via oofpoetry)

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

Virginia Woolf ― Orlando: A Biography