Nicholas Christopher, From A Poem Titled "Walt Whitman At The Reburial Of Poe," Featured In A Century

coming out of my cage and i been doing just bad. going back in my cage because i like my cage

John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne, featured in The Selected Letters of John Keats

Joseph Brodsky, from The Selected Poems of Joseph Brodsky; "A Song,"

blue jacaranda blossom in 昆明kunming, yunnan province of china

— v, from “excerpt from a book i will never write” (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

Sylvia Plath, aged 29, from "Elm", a poem she wrote after discovering her husband's affair, in a letter to Ruth Fainlight (dated Saturday, 8 September 1962)

a deep connection can’t be formed without emotional safety. without safety, there’s no trust. without trust, there’s no vulnerability. without vulnerability, there’s no intimacy + without intimacy, there’s no true connection.

Prologue to F. Dostoevsky's 'Demons' by Jorge Luis Borges