Anaïs Nin, From A Diary Entry Featured In The Diary Of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Sorrow”, Collected Poems

T. S. Eliot — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Alex Dimitrov, from "Love", Love and Other Poems

“Aphrodite, the queen of the senses, she, born of the sea-foam, is the luminousness of the gleaming senses, the phosphorescence of the sea, the senses become a conscious aim unto themselves; She is the gleaming darkness, she is the luminous night, she is goddess of destruction,”

— D. H. Lawrence, from Selected Poems and Writings; “The Lemon Gardens,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

acosmist

(noun)

one who believes that nothing exists.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The many wrongly addressed letters. Then the unsent ones. Followed by the unwritten ones. And at last — again — the poem: the breathed breve... a few syllables too long. — (Wave shorts. Wave troughs. No crests at all.)

– Paul Celan, trans. Pierre Joris

Eileen Myles, "Sleepless." I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014