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Smile, and don’t bother yourself with anyone’s business

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Isabelle Adjani for Vogue Italia, August 2004

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George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism (1945)

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Ji Xian, from a poem titled "Your Name," featured in Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology

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“إذا أحب القلب شيئاً رأته العين جنةً”

‏“and when the heart loves something the eyes see it as paradise”

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Seraph of Heaven! too gentle to be human,

Veiling beneath that radiant form of Woman!

-percy bysshe shelley.

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“Writing is writing what you cannot know before you have written: it is preknowing and not knowing, blindly, with words. It occurs at the point where blindness and light meet.”

— Hélène Cixous, from Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (tr. by Susan Sellers) (via xshayarsha)

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Alejandra Pizarnik, from Uncollected Poems (1962-1972); “In Honour of a Loss”

Text ID: I dwell in strange things.

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Remember your worth and remain unfu*kwithable.

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Sublime seasons, hearts and dangerous things.

— ANNE-MARIE KEGELS ⚜️ Belgian Women Poets: An Anthology, transl. by Renée Linkhorn & Judy Cochran, (2000)

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“A poem begins with a lump in the throat.”

— Robert Frost

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I bid farewell to everything I was, everything I despised, disliked, and loved. [...] I bid farewell to yesterday’s skin.

— ARSENY TARKOVSKY ⚜️ I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky, transl. by Philip Metres & Dimitri Psurtsev, (2015)