“I’m very perfectionistic and very lazy, which is a terrible combination.”
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”— Edgar Allan Poe
“I hope for vibrant love, the impossible, the chimerical. I dread knowing precisely my own limitations.”— René Magritte (via renemagritte-art)
“Sometimes I’m dead to the world or so it seems. And sometimes to words. As if I’d gone off somewhere else or into the oblivion of a mirror for a while. I dream of a dream whose dream I am.”— Cid Corman, Gone
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.”— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
(via books-n-quotes)
“The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.”
“My life, like a mysterious river, streamed into those empty, gloomy rooms,”— Forough Farrokhzad, from Sin: The Selected Poems of. F. F.; “Friday,”
