My love… 💋
“… on delicate mornings of the world upside down, / when it is easy to smile because the rain is soft.”
— Vicente Aleixandre, from A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre; “Love Poem” (via serpenstiarae)
“… on delicate mornings of the world upside down, / when it is easy to smile because the rain is soft.”
— Vicente Aleixandre, from A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre; “Love Poem” (via serpenstiarae)
“Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”
— Warsan Shire
“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
“Wherever your soul was before, mine was there too.”
— Hira
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“Her ancient, tear-stained beauty,”
— Alexander Blok, tr. by Frances Cornford, from “I Feel Only Russia,”
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
— Orhan Pamuk, Snow
“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
— Alice Walker (via landscape-photo-graphy)
“We should breathe the odour of roses for all eternity.”
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Thomas Mann, tr. by Willard R. Trask, from “The Black Swan,” wr. c. 1954
“I carried my book everywhere, like an eager student clinging to these simple mysteries so that I might silence in myself the last accusations: Who are you and what is your purpose?”
— Louise Glück, excerpt of “The Mystery”, in Vita Nova
