C'est la vie.

— Mirabai, from tr. by Robert Bly, from The Winged Energy of Delight; “Let Me See You,”

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz written c. May 1922 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Joyce Carol Oates, from “Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Anna Akhmatova, from Collected Poems; “To M. Lozinsky,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Rainer Maria Rilke, from a  letter to Marina Tsvetaeva c. May 1926 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke c. June 1926 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Hans-Joachim Neupert c. January 1950 (via violentwavesofemotion)

Pablo Neruda, tr. by Paul Weinfield, from “Night on the Island,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

José Saramago, tr. by Tim Crosfield, from his nobel speech c. 1998 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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