April 2012
238 posts
“Touch has a memory.”
– John Keats
“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
– Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“I often cry when I write…afterward too. It’s not easy to admit, confront,...”
– Alana Noel Voth
mythologyofblue:
because I prayed this word: I want -Sappho, fragment translated by Anne Carson
“What we usually call the beginning is the end & to make an end is to make a...”
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you...”
– Frank Crane
“You should know that there is something worse than hate and that is unlove....”
– I Wrote This for You
sera-anusu:
one does not simply
set realistic goals
AND take the necessary steps to achieve them
“And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her...”
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower
apoetreflects:
Why is the word yes so brief? It should be the longest, the hardest, so that you could not decide in an instant to say it, so that upon reflection you could stop in the middle of saying it.
—Vera Pavlova, poem “17” from If There Is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, 2010).
Translated from the Russian by Steven Seymour
“Relationships aren’t supposed to be easy. I’m willing to make it work if you...”
