When Franz Kafka Said “you Cannot Write About Salvation, You Can Only Live It”

“Ten thousand dollars for my fashion style to the boy who wears running shoes everywhere. Where are you even going? Why are you always running there?”

— Alex Dang, “Everything Must Go”

“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology

“I trusted that I had God above me, and the wicked below me. What I meant this I did not know. Only that I suffered in the gap between them, and the sky seemed so far away.”

— John Ratz, “Sleeping on God”

Jason Schneiderman, from "Staircase", You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

“It is nothing; I am here; I am still here.”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from What Are They To Us… in “Selected Poems And Letters” [translated by Jeremy Harding and John Sturrock]

“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables  (via letsmeetinourdreams)

March 29, 1966 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I used to build dreams about you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald // Benediction