“A poet does not write to set down things he clearly knows, but to open the lips of his own oracle.”— John Vyvyan, 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
“Make love to me in Spanish. Not with that other tongue. I want you juntito a mi, tender like the language crooned to babies. I want to be that lullabied, mi bien querido, that loved.”— Sandra Cisneros, amazon.com
“you have had love, and that means your sternum is a divining rod for both passion and grief. because the tongue is the body’s strongest muscle, make it say joy. make it say I am a factory of splendid things. make it say the octopus is the smartest animal in the animal kingdom, and I am an octopus. I…”— Marty McConnell, martyoutloud.com
“In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.”— Nizar Qabbani, consciouslivingfoundation.org
“To remember is to open one door after another all along the white corridor to say Yes when asked, Are you anything? Did she love you?”— Robin Ekiss, poetryfoundation.org
“The biggest stars look at me with your eyes. And as I love you, the pines in the wind want to sing your name with their leaves of wire.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.co.uk
“I lie here in a harbor that does not know where your body ends and my body begins. Fish swim between our ribs and sea gulls cry like mirrors to our blood.”— Richard Brautigan, books.google.ro
“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
“There was a research article I read with the headline, ‘Love Is A Single Act Committed By Two Brains,’ because of the way oxytocin levels rose in a mother and a son when they hugged. I wish more poets became scientists.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com