Languageenfleur - Ominous Or Premonitory?

“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

— Arthur Rimbaud (b. 20 October 1854)

“I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, ‘I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.’”

— Marian Keyes (via herpaperweight)

Naomi Shihab Nye, from You & Yours: Poems; "Stay," originally published in 2005

Trista Mateer, Honeybee

Alejandra Pizarnik, "Silences" from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

Anaïs Nin, from “The diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 3: 1939-1944”

Edith Sitwell, Fire of the Mind: The Complete Anthology of Edith Sitwell

call down the hawk — maggie stiefvater

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

— The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde