Tag Archives: poetic

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected – that is essential. Anna Gould

I love her as far as I am capable of it, but the love lies buried to the point of suffocation under fear and self-reproaches. Franz Kafka, from Diaries (via violentwavesofemotion)

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. Jorge Luis Borges, excerpt from “Two English Poems” (via perfect)

I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel. Warsan Shire (via ileu)