Marina Tsvetaeva, From Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922; “A Hero Of Labor”

“Abandon yourself (…) abandon your heavy legs to the floating meadows,”

— Mary Szybist, From Incarnadine: Poems; “The lushness of it” (via feral-ballad)

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (1922)

All mythological ideas are essentially real, and far older than any philosophy. Like our knowledge of physical nature, they were originally perceptions and experiences. In so far as such ideas are universal, they are symptoms or characteristics or normal exponents of psychic life, which are naturally present and need no proof of their truth.

— Carl Jung

[She] looked as if she had been carved out of a single pearl.

Angela Carter, "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.

Deborah DeWit (American, b.1956), Making Beds, 2010, Pastel

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from  “Women who Run with the Wolves,” published in 1992

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena,"

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. April 1929, featured in Selected Diaries

“The bowl of wild roses. The English knives and forks. Greek cigarettes. The battered and sea-stained notebook in which I rough out my poems.”

— Lawrence Durrel, from Prospero’s Cell: and Reflections on a Marine Venus (1945)