“Aphrodite, The Queen Of The Senses, She, Born Of The Sea-foam, Is The Luminousness Of The Gleaming

“I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.”

— Susan Sontag (b. 16 January 1933)

“I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”

— Joanne Harris (via quotemadness)

“If I can feel all this there must be something good in the universe…”

— Ezra Pound, from Poems And Translations (via violentwavesofemotion)

“IPHIGENIA : I shall wash blood with blood to get rid of the defilement—”

— Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians (tr. by Anne Carson)

Franz Kafka, from “Diaries, 1910-1923”

“Forget all the reasons why it wont work and believe the one reason why it will.”

— Unknown 

William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

Christina Rossetti, from Poems and Prose; “An Afterthought”

Text ID: Sure she kept one part of Eden / Angels could not strip her of.

Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Véra