“I want to be bruised by God. I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out. I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed. I want to be entered and picked clean.”— Charles Wright, amazon.com
“It is 4am. Your perfume is on Everything, on me On all the world – you Are all around, you Are all of my tattered Senses and no poetry, No song, no writing, Nothing in the world Will make this better.”— David Jones, amazon.com
“Outside the window Sky and earth exchange silver. In the moonlight I forget I’m human.”— Wang Xiaoni, theguardian.com
“In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”— Maya Angelou, poetseers.org
“Brother stand the pain; Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose. A particular glows with the universal.”— Rumi, suficomics.com
“That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“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...”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“I envy the cup of coffee that gets to kiss your sleepy lips awake every cold and bitter morning.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“In 2007, Kim Kardashian’s ex-boyfriend released their sex tape against her will. Kim Kardashian, rather than hide in shame, uses the publicity to promote her own career.”— Clementine Von Radics, youtube.com
“Kim Kardashian made $12 million dollars this year Yesterday, uncountable men in their miserable jobs, told their miserable friends that Kim was a ‘dumb whore’ Kim Kardashian will never learn their names.”— Clementine Von Radics, youtube.com
“Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that da…”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”— John Keats, goodreads.com
“Make love like you have no secrets like you’ve never been left never been hurt like the world don’t owe you a single wretched thing.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.com
“Don’t google your name. Ever. Don’t ‘search’ for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don’t let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don’t edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn’t come her…”— Andrea Gibson, andrewgibby.tumblr.com
“I don’t pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.”— Nayyirah Waheed, goodreads.com