— Franz Kafka

coming out of my cage and i been doing just bad. going back in my cage because i like my cage

Nicholas Christopher, from a poem titled "Walt Whitman at the Reburial of Poe," featured in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker

my fear of abandonment? well that comes from my experience of being abandoned

Mary Oliver, “What Was Once the Largest Shopping Center in Northern Ohio Was Built Where There Had Been a Pond I Used to Visit Every Summer Afternoon.” Why I Wake Early

— v // erica jong, insomnia & poetry (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Hortense Flexner featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

Anthem, Leonard Cohen

The hardest part about moving on is realizing that you didn't mean as much to someone as they meant to you.

real sufferers don't let anyone know. even themselves.