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J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

“If it’s still in your mind, it is still in your heart.”

— Paulo Coelho

Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“I bloom within myself, inwardly,”

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

Sylvia Plath

Alex Dimitrov, from "Love", Love and Other Poems

Charles Baudelaire, from The Flowers of Evil: Poems; "The Possessed,"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Jane Williams written in February 1823, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: to devour and be devoured,

E. E SCOTT

kafka

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

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

Cecília Meireles, from "In Autumn, My Heart," featured in Antologia poética

“There is a kind of person for whom an enthusiasm for boredom represents the beginning of philosophy.”

— Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments

Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

T. S. Eliot — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Edith Sitwell, Fire of the Mind: The Complete Anthology of Edith Sitwell

“Her brown eyes were untranslatable…She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Servant”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

Anna Akhmatova, from "Don't Frighten Me" in Selected Poems

Naomi Shihab Nye, from You & Yours: Poems; "Stay," originally published in 2005

Sasha Chorny, translated by Bernard Meares, from “My Love,” written c. 1919

She naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel herself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via quotespile)

“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”

John Keats Love Letter To Fanny Brawne – 13 October 1819

“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)

Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Cerebral, bewitching, and heartless.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, describing Lou Andreas-Salomé, from a letter to Paul Rée written c. September 1879 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Kate Chopin, from The Awakening