“Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder.”
— Virginia Woolf, from “The Waves.”
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— Theodore Roethke, from “Straw for the fire.”
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— Stevie Edwards, from “Good Grief.”
[Text ID: I am not good with fragile things, but I swear I will love all that you unearth for me—your stinted roots, all the tender you’ve long buried.]
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— César Vallejo, from The Selected Writings; “Abraham Valdelomar Has Died.”
[Text ID: And I shall see you again and wrap my arms around you, like always, with all my soul, with all my heart.]
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“I’m searching for a phrase that will release everything that’s pent up in me.”
— Henry Miller, in a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953.
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“I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can’t find the right words. All I can say is: Stay with me, don’t leave me.”
— Franz Kafka, from “Letters to Felice.”
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Haven’t you found the right shell for your soul?
— Edith Södergran,from “Hope.”
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— Katherine Mansfield, from Stories; “At the Bay.”
[Text ID: Take me away from all these other people, my love. Let us go far away. Let us live our life, all new, all ours, from the very beginning.]
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What I would give to be loved as deeply as what’s written in all these quotes you share. It’s so beautiful, so divine. ❤️
I am sure someone somewhere just yet to be found will find you and love you the way you deserve to be loved. Someone will see what nobody else could see and understand in you and they’ll treasure it like it’s all they’ve got.
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Lucky her
— Gwendolyn MacEwen, from in “Afterworlds.”
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Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals
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Henry James, from The Portrait of a Lady
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— Dorothy Bussy (neé Strachey), from Olivia.
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Wish i could be loved the same way im jealous
Even in the afterlife, i’d pick her again and again.
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— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, July 17, 1949 / Romeo & Juliet by Karl Friedrich von Müller.
[Text ID: I'm waiting for you, I'm waiting for the evening calm, I'm waiting for our time, the oblique light, this pause between day and night. Peace will come, surely. But I can imagine no other peace than that of our two bodies bound together, of our gaze given over to each other - I have no other homeland but you.]
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“I am always between two worlds, always in conflict. I would like sometimes to rest, to be at peace, to choose a nook, make a final choice, but I can't. Some nameless, undescribable fear and anxiety keeps me on the move. On certain evenings like this, I would like to feel whole. Only a half of me is sitting by the fire.”
— Anaïs Nin, from “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934.”
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— Ada Limón, from “Bright Dead Things.” / Hugh Goldwin Riviere - The Garden of Eden (1901)
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