#virginia woolf
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
-Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
what is a fatal flaw if not a morbid longing for the picturesque?
When Emily Dickinson said “How dreary to be somebody”, and Daffodils said “It’s been raining inside my head again”, and Oscar Wilde said “Behind sorrow there is always sorrow”.
fuck literary gatekeeping, read whatever you want.
“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?” || Virgina Woolf
From IG: midnightripping
I- so imperfect, so weak,
So unbelievably lonely.
virginia woolf ile vita sackville'ın mektuplaşmalarından:
“çay içmekten, yemek yemekten, okumaktan, yazmaktan, her şeyden bıktım usandım, yalnızca görmekten, itiraf ediyorum seni görmekten bıkmadım.”
“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”
It Ends With Us,Colleen Hoover
“Please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere”
New Year’s Day (reputation),Taylor Swift
“Because sometimes the only way to learn is to live”
The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
Pardon my sanity, in a world insane.
Letter to Elizabeth Holland,Emily Dickinson
“We are the only poets, and everyone else is prose.”
Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson,Emily Dickinson