Emily Dickinson, From A Letter To Mary Bowles (about December 1858)

Adonis, from “Persons”, Selected Poems

“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).

Ernest Hemingway, from his novel titled "A Farewell To Arms," originally publ. in 1929

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

Virginia Woolf ― The Years

“Aphrodite, the queen of the senses, she, born of the sea-foam, is the luminousness of the gleaming senses, the phosphorescence of the sea, the senses become a conscious aim unto themselves; She is the gleaming darkness, she is the luminous night, she is goddess of destruction,”

— D. H. Lawrence, from Selected Poems and Writings; “The Lemon Gardens,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

call down the hawk — maggie stiefvater

Virginia Woolf ― Orlando: A Biography

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

— Paulo Coelho