lifeinpoetry:

                                  red
           how blood is red
when it frees itself
from the I.

— Luther Hughes, from “Fallen Angel” published in TriQuarterly

"Do not protect my feelings if I ask your opinion: I’m asking because I’m unsure; I’m asking because I know something’s wrong. Tell me the truth. Be brutal. Help me."

—

Tennessee Williams, Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog

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"What we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

— Werner Heisenberg
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"A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities (via philosophybits)

"There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that’s the best they can hope for."

— Albert Camus, Correspondence, June 18, 1938 (via philosophybits)

"If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself."

— Nikita Gill (via quotemadness)