little cloud

Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "August," featured in White Pine: Poems & Prose Poems

— Julia de Burgos

[TEXT ID: / [Lemons] / My father's mother loved lemons. Years after her passing, / we run out of everything, but never / lemons. / Nothing else shelters grief / better than memory. / It's my father way of saying, / even in your absence, you will be / cared by me. / END ID]

Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf written in December 1926

Elton Glaser, from a poem titled “And In The Afternoons I Botanized,” featured in Parnassus

Albert Camus, The Outsider (via thehopefulquotes)

Georgy Chulkov, from “Autumnal Love,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

Bedtime. 

Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance (via quotespile)

Roald Dahl, The BFG (via quotespile)

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Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood [originally published 1987]

Ylang Messenguiral by Melanie Rodriguez for Vogue Poland May 2023