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Carl Phillips, from “Civilization”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

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Tears trickle down my silent cheeks. I feel embarrassed. I don’t want to bother them, nor any part of my body.

Everything around me wants to stand silent, unmoved by the air or by my breath. Everything wants to stop for this moment. Even our olive tree bends when it sees the bomb fall.

— Mosab Abu Toha, from "Tears," Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

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“I always felt like I saw things differently. Saw things other people didn’t.”

— Lois Lowry, The Giver

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Brigitte Bardot in the 1970s

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I feel like we need to stop Twitter callouts and go back to publishing them in the newspaper like gentlemen.

(source: The Frederick Hornet, September 27, 1803.)

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Anaïs Nin, from Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920

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Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to Dorothy Brett, dated 14 August 1918

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Mary Oliver, from "Dogfish" in New and Selected Poems

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Jacob de Backer - Allegory of Grammar. Detail.

[Grammar: the source and origin of all arts]

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Taylor Swift recommended a poem for Florence Welch’s book club in honor of 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT' (Via betweentwobooks)

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FLORENCE WELCH. photographed by Autumn De Wilde.