“Two rules for kissing: 1. Don’t kiss someone who’s in love with someone else. 1a. Especially if you love whomever you’re kissing. 2. Don’t let someone who loves you kiss you when you don’t share their feelings. 2a. Especially if you’re in love with someone else.”— S.M., sydwritesstuff.tumblr.com
“They say in this case the first love will be the last love so what if the boy that got away thinks of you as the girl that got away and what if fate pulls this trick on you too?”— Annelies, hellomissmabel.tumblr.com
“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet.”— Bob Dylan, amazon.com
“I don’t know what brings broken people together maybe damage seeks out damage the way stains on a mattress halo into one another the way stains on a mattress bleed into each other.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.com
“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it. Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music…”— Bob Dylan, open.spotify.com
“She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe 'I thought you'd never say hello,' she said 'You look like the silent type.' Then she opened up a book of poems And handed it to me Written by an Italian poet From the thirteenth century. And everyone of them words rang true And glowed like burnin'…”— Bob Dylan, open.spotify.com
“I am sick of writing this poem but bring the boy. his new name his same old body. ordinary, black dead thing. bring him & we will mourn until we forget what we are mourning & isn’t that what being black is about?”— Danez Smith, sadeandriazabala.com
“I demand a war to bring the dead boy back no matter what his name is this time.”— Danez Smith, sadeandriazabala.com
“An essential part of actualization is recognizing your spine, its exact longitudes and latitudes, its corresponding weaknesses where the algae grows.”— Claire Bowman, narrativemagazine.com
“Here lovers linger in the afterglow of intimacy, not yet concerned about the future, only enraptured by the dizzying dance they shared in each other's arms.”— Wendy Maltz, amazon.com
“We crawl through each other and back again guided by our blood- electric finger tips. I swim in you, you in me until we drift down, slowly”— Roger Pfingston, amazon.com
“Her veins flowed with liquid poetry. I stole the words from her mouth with my kisses.”— j. m. green, pinterest.com
“I would put my lips to your canvas, taste where the sweat dripped from the paintbrush, and the thick, metallic earthiness of your skin. I would run my tongue over the ridges of your beautifully crafted surface, kiss where the colors meet the edge of the frame. Claim it all as mine.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“becoming dragonfish to survive the horrors we are living with tortured lungs adapting to breathe blood.”— Audre Lorde, amazon.com
“The image offered us by reading the poem now becomes really our own. It takes root in us. It has been given us by another, but we begin to have the impression that we could have created it, that we should have created it. It becomes a new being in our language, expressing us by making us what it exp…”— Gaston Bachelard, amazon.com
“You keep making poetry out of people who never stayed as if all the pretty words in the world can cover up the heartache.”— Genefe Navilon, letters-to-the-sea.tumblr.com