Anaïs Nin, Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920

“Sometimes when one wakes up in the morning one thinks that truth is right next to the bed, like an open grave with a few wilted flowers, ready to receive.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

Clarice Lispector — An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

— ANNA KAMIEŃSKA, trans. Clare Cavanagh & Stanisław Barańczak.

sculpture by Cornelia Konrads

Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath; "Three Women,"

at my age, my heart seems more than ever like a sunflower, always turning toward the light and warmth for more strength and force of character, for more beauty and wisdom.

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry written circa February 1920 from Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914–20

“Don’t forget to love her. The little girl you used to be. Perhaps She lies within you. Untucked. Sleeping peacefully.”

— “Nurture.” By Kiana Llanos (via arabarabarab)

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

Camille Rankine, from "History", Incorrect Merciful Impulses

My biography: alienation to the bone.

— Fawziyya al-Sindi, The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, transl by Joseph T. Zeidan, (2001)

love life but it’s hard and sad

“Run into a cave and break your ankle so that people have to come find you and they see you lying at the bottom of this beautiful cave and maybe there’s a waterfall and the light from the crystals makes you look really beautiful and they say “Are you okay?” and you say “I think so” and they say “oh my God have you been here alone this whole time with a broken ankle” and you say “it’s okay” and they say “you’re so brave” and you are brave and you look so beautiful surrounded by cave crystals and everyone stands over you and says “oh wow” and “you poor beautiful thing” and “I’m so sorry we let you run into the cave but I’m so glad we found you” and let them carry you home and promise to be your best friends forever and that everything’s their fault and also they named the cave after you and you’re prettier than all of your enemies and your enemies all died of jealousy while you were in the cave.”

— Daniel M. Lavery, How To Respond To Criticism (via boringoldraphael)

"Stay away from anything    that obscures the place it is in.    There are no unsacred places;    there are only sacred places    and desecrated places."

Wendell Berry, How to Be a Poet

Franz Wright, from “The Hawk,” in God’s Silence