#The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1931-1932

[weusedtobegiants]

I have smelled my own honey on his mouth.

Anaïs Nin, from The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

[typewriter-worries]

I'll Eat You Up, I Love You So

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[89rooms]

a complete hunger for you, a devouring hunger.

Henry Miller - letter to Anaïs Nin, ‘Henry and June,’ "A Journal of Love," The Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) of Anais Nin

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love” -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

[libraincarnate]

astrology notes: 18 (love quotes) 🦇‧₊⁺⭒

quick note: i'm absolutely not an astrologer and this post is just for fun. i understand that some of these quotes or excerpts may not be about love when you consider the full context of the poem or work of literature, but this is how i am intepreting and applying them without context. lastly, keep in mind that i'm not reading your birth chart and i know nothing about you. these are just quotes that remind me of the signs so you may or may not be able to relate to them. enjoy!

𓆩♡𓆪 aries:

“If we meet each other in Hell, it’s not Hell.”

— Geoffrey Hill, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012

𓆩♡𓆪 taurus:

“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity...” 

           — George Orwell, 1984 ↟♡↟

𓆩♡𓆪 gemini:

“The next day I write him one of the most human notes he has ever received: no intellect, just words about his voice, his laughter, his hands.”

— Anaïs Nin, from Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

𓆩♡𓆪 cancer: 

“…Your chest is becoming the field I want to be buried in.” 

— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, from The Year of No Mistakes: “Atlas”

𓆩♡𓆪 leo: 

“Attention is the beginning of devotion."  

           ― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays 🦇

𓆩♡𓆪 virgo: 

Pylades: I’ll take care of you.

Orestes: It’s rotten work. 

Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.

― Orestes by Euripides from An Oresteia, translated by Anne Carson

𓆩♡𓆪 libra:

“If there is life after the earth-life, will you come with me? Even then? Since were bound to be something, why not together.”

           ― Mary Oliver, from “West Wind” ↟♡↟

𓆩♡𓆪 scorpio:

“They had made love in every possible way, or so they believed, and they theorized about new ways but came up only with death.”

― Roberto Bolaño, from '2666', translated by Natasha Wimmer

𓆩♡𓆪 sagittarius:

"All roads lead to you even those I took to forget you."

           ― Mahmoud Darwish 🦇

𓆩♡𓆪 capricorn:

“She turned to me and said, ‘hold me’. So I dropped the world I had been holding and picked her up with both hands.”

           ― Zachry K Douglas ↟♡↟

𓆩♡𓆪 aquarius:

“I feel the distance between myself and others. I guard that distance … But when you move away from me, even just the least bit, a blackness descends upon me, I feel engulfed.”

— Henry Miller, "A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953"

𓆩♡𓆪 pisces:

“I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.”

           — Edwin Morgan, When You Go 🦇

this was just something cute and extra since I haven’t posted anything in a while. if you read this until the end i hope you enjoyed it & thank you so much for reading. ♥︎♥︎♥︎, those hearts are for you.

[emiliosandozsequence]

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[thelittledaily]

I want to be there wherever you are. Lying next to you even if you are asleep.

Anaïs Nin, from The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

[heavenrings]

henry and june: from "a journal of love": the unexpurgated diary of anaïs nin, 1931-1932

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[zerotosixty]

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[weusedtobegiants]

“You expected—more brutality?”

Anaïs Nin, from The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

[petaltexturedskies]

We sit very close in the cafe. We walk together very close. We are half sad, half joyous. It is warm. He smells my perfume. I look at his beautiful face. We desire each other. But it’s a mirage. It’s only because we are so young, and it is summer, and we are walking body against body.

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

[letsbeapoemtogether]

“I say to her, “You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.”

— Anaïs Nin, from Henry & June; A Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–1932)

[nam-amor-artis]

I want my solitude, my peace, the beauty of my house; I want to find my lightness & my joy again.Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

[saintaemond]

Margaret Atwood, From Power Politics: Poems/ Envelopes of Air, Limón&Diaz / — Anaïs Nin, from Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love” The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932. / — Anaïs Nin, From Letter to Henry Miller, August 3, 1932.