the earth would die if the sun stopped kissing her

Alice Notley// Colette// Meleager// Walter Robert // Michaela Leventis// Victor Hugo

Nizar Qabbani // Franz Kafka

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Abiah Root (May 1848)

Warsan Shire, from "Extreme Girlhood", Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Jasmin Lee Cori, The Emotionally Absent Mother: How to Recognize and Heal the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect

Safia Elhillo, from "Summer," Girls That Never Die.

— Catherine Breillat  (via atrialflutters)

[text ID: This is the map of my heart, the landscape after cruelty which is, of course, a garden, which is a tenderness, which is a room, a lover saying Hold me tight, it’s getting cold. /end ID]