“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love with someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradics.tumblr.com
“To love me is to love a haunted house. It’s fun to visit once a year but no one wants to live there.”— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.com
“Accidents never happen when the room is empty. Everyone understands this. Everyone needs a place. People like to think war means something.”— Richard Siken, psychologytomorrowmagazine.com
“it is a tuesday when i love someone who doesn’t love me. no, it’s not the first time, but it’s a sad time. oh, it’s always a sad time but my heart doesn’t listen, doesn’t understand, soars like a child in a rocket ship, doesn’t believe in gravity. doesn’t believe in learning a lesson. wants to give…”— Yena Sharma Purmasir, fly-underground.tumblr.com
“You torment yourself wondering how they could not love your burning heart; and the answer is darling, you are not the star you thought you were. You are the fucking universe.”— Marimontoya, marimontoya.tumblr.com
“I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn’t have at dusk.”— Joy Harjo, amazon.com
“What we call the beginning is often the end And to make and end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“These are the dreams we should be having. I shouldn’t have to clean them up like this.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.”— Oriah, oriahmountaindreamer.com
“I am tired of being taken for granted. If only I could get back a fraction of what I give. But my efforts go unrecognized, and my soul keeps wishing to be noticed, to be valued; to be understood.”— Lang Leav, facebook.com
“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“Time pours from its mouth. We design it a flickering. Here is its desolation. Here it crosses. Here it falls at last. Here it has its full gratification. Here on the yet visible remains. The first. Maybe this gaze. Here, waiting.”— Lisa Robertson, amazon.com
“What if I told you that if you simply mix starlight, solitude, silence and softness, you may just learn everything you've ever needed to know about everything you hadn't known?”— Victoria Erickson, amazon.com
“When you force yourself into someone's daughter, you rape generations of women.”— Aman Batra, facebook.com
“I want to kiss the kindness inside you. I want you to be loved in the exact way you love. We’re both ready with our, “You met me at a really weird time in my life…” monologues and I want to rehearse lines with you.”— Ari Eastman, Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com