“If You Want To Awaken All Of Humanity, Then Awaken All Of Yourself. If You Want To Eliminate The Suffering

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

— Gyula Krúdy (via lareinedefer)

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”

“Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Soft and exquisite,”

— Li Qingzhao, tr. by Jiaosheng Wang, from “A Partridge Sky for the Cassia Flower.” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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

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

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

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

“I bloom within myself, inwardly,”

— Gabriela Mistral, from Selected Prose & Prose Poems; “The Fig,”

Do today what everyone else will do tomorrow. — Jean Cocteau, French poet

Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Véra