“My heart is a bar and someone else works there now. My heart is in a bar that feels like someone else’s home when I walk into it.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“It’s your flaws I want to taste. Your crooked mouth. The way you smell after being out all day. The lump in your throat. Your shaky hands. Your morning breath. Your prickly legs. Your pimpled politeness. Your tangled hair. I don’t want to be able to run my fingers through you easily. It’s no fun wri…”— Lora Mathis, loramathis.com
“Your name is the strongest positive and negative connotation in any language it either lights me up or leaves me aching for days.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“I could build a future between your thighs then look into your eyes trying to find my own private history channel with a life long documentary on whether or not this was meant to be and I don’t want to turn any of this into poetry but you’re so beautiful flowers turn their heads to smell you. And wh…”— Shane Koyczan, amazon.com
“oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much”— Frank O'Hara, amazon.com
“I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with t…”— Andrea Gibson, andrewgibby.tumblr.com
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever.”— Rabindranath Tagore, amazon.com
“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)”— E. E Cummings, amazon.com
“It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.”— Richard Brautigan, amazon.com
“i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i li…”— E. E Cummings, amazon.com
“You haven’t kissed anyone for a while now. To you, everything tastes like blood.”— Warsan Shire, itwillheal.wordpress.com
“Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was good. I loved your crooked sleep beside me and never dreamed afraid. There should be stars for great wars like ours.”— Sandra Cisneros, amazon.com
“and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don’t phone don’t write don’t arrive”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“The desire to be loved is the last illusion: Give it up and you will be free.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“my dear, we are all made of water. it’s okay to rage. sometimes it’s okay to rest. to recede.”— Sanober Khan, amazon.com