“…my dreams slice me to pieces.”
— Anne Sexton, from Lost Lies (via writemeanna)
Etikett: quote
“Don’t look so frightened,
this is just a passing phase, one of my bad days.”— (One of My Turns) Pink Floyd
how many poems must you write to convince yourself / you have a family? everyone leaves & you end up the stranger.
June, July, August.
Everything wrong, and nowhere to go.
“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”
— Hawthorne, American Note-Books, 1838 (via lucybiederman)
“Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.”
— Ken Kesey
I still cling to the wreck of my hopes, before they sink for ever.
“‘Don’t settle. Don’t settle for something that feels like a prison, or is hard, or hurts you. If it doesn’t feel like love, it’s not love.’”
— Michelle Williams In Vanity Fair.
Saturday and nothing.
“I discover the ache / but not the why or how of it.”
— Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, from “[My brown body is inherited],” published in Tinderbox