“I am a witch, an enchantress of sorts and have already been worshipped and hung and in the same order.”— Anne Sexton, from a letter to Paul Brooks written c. June 1968
Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems; “December 11th,” written c. 1966
“Now I am clothed in gold air with one dozen halos glistening on my skin.”— Anne Sexton, from “Hurry Up Please It’s Time” featured in The Complete Poems
Anne Sexton
…there are knots God can’t untie…
(Source: sliplead, via eyesaremosaics)
“Lust is so inadequate. And loving exhausts me.”— Anne Sexton
(via purplebuddhaquotes)
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“I’m not tragic these days, I don’t weep, but I feel alone, bewildered, far from you, far from everything — nothing has any meaning.”— Simone de Beauvoir, from letters to Sartre
(via eyesaremosaics)
Woman, Serpent, Moon. via httpblog.ninapaley-com Bibliothèque Infernale on FB
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“I feel the distance between myself and others. I guard that distance.”— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”.”— Isaac Asimov
by Mark Henson
“Wolves and women have much in common.”— Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves
“Intellectual knowledge, without the spirit being very well-developed, produces intellectual confusion.”— Samael Aun Weor (via thatwhichdoesnotsuffer)
