“If You Hear A Voice Within You Say “you Cannot Paint”, Then By All Means Paint, And That Voice

“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)

if not, winter, sappho (tr. anne carson)

“It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Humiliated and Insulted

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

“He does not know how to love anyone but himself, and when he wants to love others he always has first to transform them into himself. In that he is ingenious.”

—Daybreak, §412 (edited).

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Ernest Hemingway, from his novel titled "A Farewell To Arms," originally publ. in 1929

“Think new things every day.”

— Democritus, Fragments, B158

Marguerite Duras, The Lover