soothings reblogged
Someday, somewhere — anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
— Pablo Neruda
— Pablo Neruda
Jennifer S. Cheng, So We Must Meet Apart; “August 24, 2018”
I live for elegance, mystery and sophisticaton but I also live for rawness, audacious sense of living and passionate unrefinement of feeling
“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
— Maria Edgeworth (via metrosouthern)
“The forests grow back with patience, not rage.”
Latin: Silvae crescunt cum patientia, non rabie.
Greek: αἱ ὗλαι ἐπανέρχονται μετά τῆς πραότος, οὐ τῆς ὀργῆς.
— Tony Hoagland, “Peaceful Transition”, What Narcissism Means to Me (2003)
Paul Eluard, “Gabriel Péri”, Selected Poems (trans. Gilbert Bowen)
[Text ID: “There are words that help us to live And they are plain words The word warmth the word trust Love justice and the word freedom The word child and the word kindness.”]
Isabel Allende, Eva Luna (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Yehuda Amichai, from The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai; “And as far as Abu Ghosh,”
Herman Hesse, Demian (tr. Damion Searls)
Isabel Allende ― The House of the Spirits
Annunciation in Nabokov and Starr Mary Szybist
nature!! is so lovely!! protect her!!