“Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love’s hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul.”— Lyudmila Ulitskaya, goodreads.com
“If love wants you; if you’ve been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills, with warm blood and cold. With feathers and scales.”— Anne Michaels, amazon.co.uk
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep…”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”— David Whyte, amazon.com
“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.”— Jacques Lacan, amazon.com
“I’ve never aspired to be more than a dreamer. I paid no attention to those who spoke to me of living. I’ve always belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be. Whatever isn’t mine, no matter how base, has always had poetry for me. The only thing I’ve loved is nothing at all. The on…”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our evolution is perhaps nothing but an expression of poetry that was lost.”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.com
“It is better to love every person, than to wait for one person to love you.”— Anis Mojgani, anismojgani.bandcamp.com