March 2012
118 posts
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“Am I to bless the lost you,
sitting here with my clumsy soul?
Propaganda time...”
– Anne Sexton
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“Who is he?
A railroad track toward hell?
Breaking like a stick of furniture?...”
– Anne Sexton, Despair
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“Watch out for love
(unless it is true,
and every part of you says yes...”
– Anne Sexton, Admonitions to a Special Person
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“Do you like me?”
I asked the blue blazer.
No answer.
Silence bounced...”
– Anne Sexton, Lessons in Hunger
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“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to...”
– Haruki Murakami
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“You know being born is important.
You know nothing else was ever so important...”
– from Being Born is Important by Carl Sandburg
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“This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key...”
– Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter
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“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not...”
– Saul Williams
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“I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room,...”
– Daniel Handler
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“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You...”
– Rumi
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“When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Love.
Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
Flowers I ache from the...”
– Pablo Neruda, Love
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“[…] I’m saying your name
in the grocery store, I’m saying your name on
the...”
– Richard Siken, from “Saying Your Name”
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“Love is short, forgetting is so long…”
– Pablo Neruda
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“There’s a moment when I look at you, and no speech is left in me
My tongue...”
– Fainetai Moi by Sappho
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“Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her...”
– Helena Kvarnstrom
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“Sometimes when I get up and emerge from the mists of slumber, my whole room...”
– Bohumil Hrabal
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My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky.
My Lover Asks Me by Nizar Qabbani
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“If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.”
– Stendhal
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“I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for,...”
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“I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.”
– ― Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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“I have so much, and my feelings for her absorb it all; I have so much, and...”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe “The Sorrows Of Young Werther”
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