“Her eyes are classic novels and poetry.”
— Isaac Marion (via balletmuse)
Etikett: poetry
You, that at this moment are to me / Dearer than words on paper,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems; “Sonnets,”
I would like my own body to turn into a heap of incense and sandalwood and you set a torch to it.
Mirabai, tr. by Robert Bly, from The Winged Energy of Delight; “Don’t Go,”
“I wish I wasn’t such a dreamer. I’ve ruined this life for myself.”
“I wanted it so much. I don’t know why I wanted it so much.”
— Ernest Hemingway, Cat in the Rain
“She sighs and dreams and thrills and glows,”
— Harold Monro, from Before Dawn (Poems & Impressions); “Milk for the Cat,” (via honeymoonphantasmagoria)
But softer than the breath of summer / Was the kiss she gave to me.
James Joyce, from The Selected Poems of James Joyce; “Song,”
I am alone in my room, between two worlds.
Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,”
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
“The Bait”, John Donne
“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
— James Dean (via quotemadness)
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