As for myself, I am more like the solar machine; completely static in the dark—and dark and light interchange like day and night in me. Jim Herlihy, from a letter to Anaïs Nin (via violentwavesofemotion)

As a child she was described as having the eyes of a half-tamed creature, being drawn to the unnatural, with a penchant for improvising tempestuous fairy stories. Patti Smith, in her Introduction to Wuthering Heights (via henrydear)

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality. Franz Kafka to Milena (via man-of-prose)

adorleehaze: “so I foreglimpsed her; a velvet hair ribbon was still clutched in her hand; her honey-brown body, with the white negative image of a rudimentary swimsuit patterned against her tan…” –Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita