T.S. Eliot, From “III. The Fire Sermon”, Collected Poems, 1909-1962

“She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.”

— Gyula Krúdy (via lareinedefer)

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

“It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.”

— Colleen Hoover (via quotemadness)

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

― Emily Dickinson

Christina Rossetti, from Poems and Prose; “An Afterthought”

Text ID: Sure she kept one part of Eden / Angels could not strip her of.

Franz Wright, from Earlier Poems; “Poem in Three Parts: 2. The Wound”

[Text ID: The wound that never healed but learned to sing.]

♡ fairytale-like words ♡

sea silk, sea foam, sea glass, honeydew, moonflowers, snowy eyelashes, pink powdered, otherworldly, lily eyed, misty days, melancholic dreamer, melodies, peach nectar, fallen rose petals, petals, glowing dreams, dazzling, gleaming, glassy eyes, ocean, sea,wavy hair, water nymph, mermaid, siren, faery, soft lullabies, ocean eyes, honeysuckle, ghost, tangled hair, dewdrops, dewy skin, shiny moonlight, innocent lamb, peachy cheeks, fairytales, velvet, fawn, doe eyed, sugar coated, wonderland, bunnies, enchanting, rose scented tears, rain, angels.

““I miss dreaming forwards,” Anna said. “What?” “I dream backwards now. You won’t believe how backwards you’ll dream someday.””

— Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness (via quoted-books)