December 2011
“A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him up for her own,
Pressed her body to...”
– ― W.B. Yeats (via polarbearprince)
sukanji:
In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes If she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I’ll reply: Eden burns…
— Rainer Maria Rilke.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde (via ryantippery)
“By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via thedeerandtheoak)
“Protect yourself from your own thoughts.”
– Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
“It’s said it takes seven years
to grow completely new skin cells.
To think,...”
– Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, December 21st, 2002 (via briery)
“How frail the human heart must be-
a throbbing pulse, a trembling thing-
a...”
– Sylvia Plath, from “I thought that I could not be hurt”
(via growing-orbits: / huong1952:)
(via theantidote)
“Run like hell my dear
From anyone likely
To put a sharp knife
Into the...”
– Hafiz (via nirvikalpa)
“… It is unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently.”
– Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
“Where do the words go
when we have said them?”
– Margaret Atwood, The Small Cabin (via my-dark-star)