“But if the Holy Ghost once more Should lend his aid to us we'd see Others perform what Jesus did— Since in his heartsick anguish he”— Hafez, poetryfoundation.org
“She tells me, 'I don't know how to love anyone with my whole being,' I tell her, 'I don't know how to not.'”— Blythe Baird, youtube.com
“What’s more, is Tinder causing us to skip that vital step where we gauge compatibility in a partner? If we’re all performing, how do we know if the person on the other side is right for us?”— Cooper Fleishman, melmagazine.com
“What is the universe without each sunrise? That’s how we judge our gods, not on their math but their poetry.”— Noah Hawley, Nathaniel Halpern, Amahl Farouk, Navid Negahban, imdb.com
“Who wants transparency when you can have magic? Who wants prose when you can have poetry? Pull away the veil and what are you left with? An ordinary young woman of modest ability and little imagination. But wrap her up like this, anoint her with oil, and hey, presto, what do you have? A goddess.”— Peter Morgan, Duke of Windsor, Alex Jennings, imdb.com
“Valerie: 'S,' because she’s so sublime, 'A,' because she’s awesome all the time! Harvey: 'B,' because she’s the best babe in school, 'R,' because she really makes me drool! Mr. Kraft: And 'I' is for the icon she’s become, 'N' is ‘cause she’s great, she makes me numb! All: And 'A,' it’s redundant to…”— Frank Conniff, Harvey Kinkle, Nate Richert, imdb.com
“I want to write a poem for the women on Long Island whose words stretch and curl like bubblegum around the forefinger.”— Olivia Gatwood, youtube.com
“accepting this body did not mean convincing myself that it was beautiful”— Trista Mateer, instagram.com
“All sad people like poetry. Happy people like songs.”— John Logan, Vanessa Ives, Eva Green, imdb.com
“A bullet held me captive, gun in my face, your hate misplaced. White skin, light skin, but for me, not the right skin.”— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Reggie Green, Marque Richardson, imdb.com
“your shampoo smelled like the riverbank & I wondered if that’s where you went on nights you couldn’t sleep.”— wroteghost, wroteghost.tumblr.com
“What is this taht I can see Cold icy hands taking hold of me for Death has come, you all can see. Hell has open it,s gate to trick me. Oh! Death, Oh! Death, can't you spare me, over for another year! I'll stuff your jaws till you can't talk I'll blind your leg's till you can't walk I'll tie your han…”— Dennis Rader, foxnews.com
“The summer heat is kind at night, and every window in our house is open and welcome to it.”— Schuyler Peck, instagram.com
“Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.”— Ada Lovelace, en.wikiquote.org
“me, the emotional moon you, the vibrant sun both of us more beautiful when we are one”— Kristin Michelle Elizabeth, amazon.com