Novalis, Heinrich Von Ofterdingen: A Romance [originally Published 1802]

Franz Kafka, from “Diaries, 1910-1923”

Adonis, from Selected Poems; “This Is My Name” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

“He does not know how to love anyone but himself, and when he wants to love others he always has first to transform them into himself. In that he is ingenious.”

—Daybreak, §412 (edited).

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

—

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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

[He] felt that the murky twilight which was gradually seeping into the room was also slowly penetrating his body, transforming his blood into fog, and that he was powerless to stop the spell that was being cast on him by the twilight.

Vladimir Nabokov, Mary, 1926

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

“Cerebral, bewitching, and heartless.”

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