“The earliest gardens were walled not to keep out animals, but to keep them in, so they could not be hunted by strangers. The Persian word for these walled sanctuaries was pairidaeza, the Hebrew, pardes, in Greek, paradeiosos. […] The origin of the word ‘paradise’ is simply ‘enclosure.’”
— Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault
Daphne du Maurier, from The Parasites
- Andrea Gibson, from "Good Light," Lord of the Butterflies
Jenny Hval, from Girls Against God
“When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included?”
— Mary Oliver, from Pen And Paper And A Breath Of Air in “Blue Pastures” (via adrasteiax)
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Haruki Marukami
“She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.”
— Gyula Krúdy
James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
rest well louise ♡︎ (louise glück, the wild iris)
Fridtjof Nansen
Charles Bukowski
reminding myself daily that choices are portals, not endings
Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
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