“I Do Not Speak As I Think, I Do Not Think As I Should, And So It All Goes On In Helpless Darkness.”

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

David Lynch & Mark Frost, Twin Peaks

There was a star riding through clouds one night and I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Annotated)

Mikhail Kuzmin, from “The Summer’s Love,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

“Vanity is the fear of appearing original.”

—Daybreak, §365 (excerpt).

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

— Hermann Hesse, from “Iris”, The Fairytales of Hermann Hesse

“Incense, with its sweetsmelling perfume and high-ascending smoke, can be compared to a sincere, earnest prayer which, enkindled by the fire of concentration, rises up as a pleasant offering.”

—

Anna Riva;

Magic With Incense and Powders: 850 Rituals and Uses With Chants and Prayers

(via liminalblessings)