“And I Can’t Be Running Back And Forth Forever Between Grief And High Delight.”

“You came into my life — not as one comes to visit … but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Nabokov, Letters to Véra, ed. and transl. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)

E. E SCOTT

Adonis, from Selected Poems; “This Is My Name” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles (about December 1858)

“—I have a childlike heart”

— Sappho, Fragments (tr. by Mary Barnard)

Yes, I did write in my letter that I would wait for you forever. I didn’t mean exactly “forever,” I just included it for the rhythm.

— Dunya Mikhail, from “Non-Military Statements,” The War Works Hard tr. Elizabeth Winslow

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”

— Franz Kafka  (via quotemadness)

acosmist

(noun)

one who believes that nothing exists.