It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat
but often the shadow seems more real than the body.]
The samurai looks insignificant
beside his armor of black dragon scales.
After a Death by Tomas Tranströmer (via the-final-sentence)
(Source: growing-orbits)
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened
or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
Mary Oliver, from “When Death Comes” (via bookoasis)