Do Today What Everyone Else Will Do Tomorrow. — Jean Cocteau, French Poet

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

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I have been woman for a long tine beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic”

— Audre Lorde, from her porm “A Woman speaks”

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

Trista Mateer, Honeybee

“If I can feel all this there must be something good in the universe…”

— Ezra Pound, from Poems And Translations (via violentwavesofemotion)

Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Véra

“Vanity is the fear of appearing original.”

—Daybreak, §365 (excerpt).

“Tell me, How does it feel with my teeth in your heart?”

— Euripides, Medea

“I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself: I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, ‘Fuck, I can’t read two-thirds of these books.’ It overwhelms me with sadness.”

— David Bowie, 2002