"There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pool singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone."
— There Will Come Soft Rains, Sara Teasdale
"To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living."
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via coffeeislovely)
(Source: the-messenger-of, via fleurishes)
"Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense."
— Louise Erdrich (via kari-shma)
(via forest-dreams)
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
— Anais Nin (via kari-shma)
(via thedistantbird)
"I love you so much I’m gonna punch myself! I don’t know why but I’m gonna punch myself!"
— The French boy (via inkytakespictures)
"Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern."
— Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency (via cartographe)
(via fleurishes)
"But it’s always dawnest before dark."
— Daniel Handler, Adverbs (via fairisle)
(Source: ossiebigtree)
"Interacting with other people does not come naturally to me; it is a strain and requires effort, and since it does not come naturally I feel like I am not really myself when I make that effort. I feel fairly comfortable with my family, but even with them I sometimes feel the strain of not being alone."
— Peter Cameron (via joannastarks)
(Source: simply-quotes, via milkwoods)
"I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful."
— Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via milkwoods)
(Source: fuckyeahvirginiawoolf, via milkwoods)
"She stuck a bookmark
in my heart
and walked away."
— Saul Williams, from “She” (via jamima-puddle-duck)
(via fleurishes)
"My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage."
— Alice Hoffman (via tigerlilyrose)
(Source: misswallflower, via nerwicaaa)
"Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams."
— Vladimir Nabokov (via nyred)
(via nerwicaaa)
"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual."
— Virginia Woolf (via hateshiploveship)
(via seafoamchild)
