“Is that what makes art/ so desirable? What makes the under-wine flesh tasteful?”— Luther Hughes, theadroitjournal.org
“No one noticed When the sparrows left It was just another smoggy winter morning People drove their cars dropped their children off At air conditioned schools Where they learned Pollution is a bad thing It was just another smoggy winter morning And stuck on flyovers No one noticed That they spent mor…”— Unknown, twitter.com
“When I took the trash out at night, I sometimes felt his eyes, tried to pretend he wasn’t the thing he claimed to be protecting me from.”— Raven Leilani , narrativemagazine.com
“It’s messy, but so are the best burritos and the best sex while eating burritos and running with scissors is the only way to make danger understand”— Bob Hicok, narrativemagazine.com
“When I hear news of a hitchhiker struck by lightning yet living, or a child lifting a two-ton sedan to free his father pinned underneath, or a camper fighting off a grizzly with her bare hands until someone, a hunter perhaps, can shoot it dead, my thoughts turn to black people— the hysterical streng…”— Nicole Sealey, narrativemagazine.com
“I am not to speak to you—I am to think of you when I sit alone, or wake at night alone, I am to wait—I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?”— Paul Gaugin, en.wikiquote.org
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.”— Emily Dickinson, amazon.com
“...I would like you to stay and talk with me oh yes I say but if you are busy he said I don't want you to feel that you have to just because I'm here”— W.S. Merwin, amazon.com
“You draw constellations in my freckles. I mean you ask me not to fall in love with you and then you go write poems with your tongue and draw constellations in my freckles.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“I kiss him and say: There is something in me cannot be healed. There is something in me needs breaking open.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.”— Lora Mathis, loramathis.com
“I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me why you loved them, then tell me why they loved you. Tell me about a day in your life you wouldn’t think you’d live through. Tell me what the word home means to you And tell me in a way that I’ll know your mother’s name…”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much”— Frank O'Hara, amazon.com
“I pretended indifference even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt the less able I was to respond.”— Louise Glück, amazon.com
“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.”— Anna Akhmatova, amazon.com
“I write about you all the time, I said aloud. Every time I say ‘I,’ it refers to you.”— Louise Glück, amazon.com
“All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do it.”— Richard Brautigan, amazon.com
“Being loved is not the same thing as loving. When you fall in love, it is discovering the ocean after years of puddle jumping. It is realizing you have hands. It is reaching for the tightrope when the crowds have all gone home. Do not spend time wondering if you are the type of woman men will hurt.…”— Sarah Kay, huffingtonpost.com