William Shakespeare, From ‘Macbeth’

“Fall in love with ordinary. Fall in love with the everyday. Fall in love with brown eyes and small towns and a hand full of dandelions. Discover. Discover the crevices. Read the books that aren’t so popular, by little known authors who have a lot to offer. Listen to music that makes you think. Choose art that is buried in the corner of galleries, or on the street. Teach yourself to love the small things. The special but unnoticed things. Teach yourself how the ordinary is not so ordinary after all.”

— S. Zhao   (via blossomfully)

“But the best walking is without reason, formless, scattering the self into thinking, more winter.”

— Jennifer Chang, from “We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once”, Some Say the Lark

I just think you should sing no matter what you sound like and draw or paint no matter what it looks like

Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."

-Michel de Montaigne

“The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence.”

— Charles Simic, from “Autumn Sky,” Poetry (October 2002)

“He placed his mouth on her throat, kissing the words she could not utter. He seemed to divine where she wanted a kiss to fall next, what part of her body demanded to be warmed.”

Detail: Mars & Venus, Allegory of Peace, 1770, by Louis Jean François Lagrenée.

Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky by Garth Greenwell