"I knew when I said
I love you
that I was inventing a new alphabet
for a city where no one could read
that I was saying my poems
in an empty theater
and pouring my wine
for those who could not
taste it."

— Poems from Nizar Qabbani (1957)

(Source: hmeeda, via dyingfairy)

"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."

— Charles Bukowski

(Source: clairvoyant---disease, via aliendeerbaby)