My heart turns rough; it abrades my side like a file with two edges […]
Virginia Woolf, from ‘The Waves’
“The depths I craved, the darkness, the finality, the absolution.”
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love” — The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“I am not the light, I am the night; but a flame stabs through my entrails and consumes me. I am the night devoured by light.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis, from Saviors of God
“I have nothing to say. […] Listen to me, listen to what’s the nothing I have to say.”
— Charles Wright, from “One needs no Paradise when the rain falls”
“Unbody me–I’m tired–and get me home.”
— Ralph Hodgson, from Eve, And Other Poems (1913); “The Moor,” (via feestje)
“I am not a creature that was born. I am a fire that was set.”
— Moss Angel The Undying, from Sea-Witch Vol. 2: Girldirt Angelfog