J.R.R. Tolkien, From The Return Of The King

Oscar Wilde, from At Verona

if not, winter, sappho (tr. anne carson)

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

or·phic

/ˈôrfik/

adjective mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding.

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”

— Franz Kafka  (via quotemadness)

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

“Envy is nothing else but hatred, in so far as it is disposing a man to rejoice in another’s hurt, and to grieve at another’s advantage.”

— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“I do understand—and it is terrible.”

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written c. July 1915, featured in “Letters to Felice,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

birds hover the trampled field, richard siken