Samantha ❦

“It might be lonelier
Without the Loneliness —
I'm so accustomed to my Fate —
Perhaps the Other — Peace —

Would interrupt the Dark —
And crowd the little Room —
Too scant — by Cubits — to contain
The Sacrament — of Him —

I am not used to Hope —
It might intrude upon —
Its sweet parade — blaspheme the place —
Ordained to Suffering —

It might be easier
To fail — with Land in Sight —
Than gain — My Blue Peninsula —
To perish — of Delight —

F535 (1863) J405”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
― Emily Dickinson