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

Alexander Blok, translated by Robert Chandler, from a poem titled "She Came Out in the Frost,"

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.”

— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms (via philosophybits)

Trista Mateer, Honeybee

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse on translating Abdulla Pashew's "Resurrection" (essay here, full poem here) [ID'd]

“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

— Arthur Rimbaud (b. 20 October 1854)

“learning to learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new chapters and take on new responsibilities.”

— From the other side of grad school | MIT Admissions

“Think new things every day.”

— Democritus, Fragments, B158

Oscar Wilde, from At Verona

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Alejandra Pizarnik, "Silences" from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972