MELANCHOLY'S GIRLFRIEND

flowerytale:

May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

adrasteiax:

“The sea: I didn’t lose myself in it; I found myself in it.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks (1942-1951)

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strykerlancer:

— Ocean Vuong, from “Seventh Circle of Earth.”

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itssomayaa:

“You don’t know what a wild, crazy longing I have, what an ache there is inside me.”

Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

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feral-ballad:

Kaveh Akbar, from Calling A Wolf A Wolf: Poems; “Personal Inventory: Fearless (Temporis Fila)”

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metamorphesque:

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— Mary Oliver, The Pond

metamorphesque:

“But love unexplained is clearer.”

— Description of Love, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

metamorphesque:

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— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

strykerlancer:

— Paul Valéry, from Collected Works; “The Voice of Things.”

lifeinpoetry:

“everything I want to say / I swallow”

— Lyric Hunter, from “A Garden,” Swallower

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violentwavesofemotion:

“I looked for love in things that were not love.”

— Florence Welch, referring to what inspired her to write the song “Hunger,”

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