Alejandra Pizarnik, "Silences" From Extracting The Stone Of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

La pureté est absolument invulnérable en tant que pureté (...). Mais elle est éminemment vulnérable en ce sens que toute atteinte du mal la fait souffrir (S. Weil, Pesanteur, 1943, p. 79).

“learning to learn and feeling like you’re starting from scratch is something you do again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new chapters and take on new responsibilities.”

— From the other side of grad school | MIT Admissions

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Sorrow”, Collected Poems

“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”

— Leo Tolstoy (1847-1910), Anna Karenina

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (via quotespile)

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

mary oliver, the pond

“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”

— Jane Austen

— Hermann Hesse, from “Iris”, The Fairytales of Hermann Hesse