Cecília Meireles, From "In Autumn, My Heart," Featured In Antologia Poética

“I shall live on dreams because reality is too cruel to me. I think I shall be the kind of person nobody understands,”

— Anaïs Nin, from ‘Linotte; The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1914-1920′

“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via quotespile)

[He] felt that the murky twilight which was gradually seeping into the room was also slowly penetrating his body, transforming his blood into fog, and that he was powerless to stop the spell that was being cast on him by the twilight.

Vladimir Nabokov, Mary, 1926

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

“Elle s'éveillait comme d'un songe, elle naissait à la passion.”

— Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

—The Picture of Dorian Gray - O. Wilde

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

— Anne Frank

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

Sasha Chorny, translated by Bernard Meares, from “My Love,” written c. 1919

mary oliver, the pond