Kate Chopin, From The Awakening

“It’s all messy: the hair, the bed, the words, the heart. Life.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

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

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

Anaïs Nin, from “The diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 3: 1939-1944”

“Sometimes I get up early and even my soul is wet. Far away the sea sounds and resounds. This is a port. Here I love you. Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.”

— Pablo Neruda, from “Here I Love You” (via oofpoetry)

Sylvia Plath

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (via quotespile)

“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”

— Barry H. Gillespie

Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: to devour and be devoured,

“Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne