Anne Sexton, from The Black Art
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— Louise Glück, from “The Untrustworthy Speaker.”
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— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anais Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller.
[Text ID: Give me a few days of peace in your arms-I need it terribly. I'm ragged, worn, exhausted. After that I can face the world.]
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter featured in The Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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People aren't homes, they never will be. People are rivers, always changing, forever flowing. They will disappear with everything you put inside them.
~ Nikita Gill
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Tanaya Winder, from “Uncharted Territory of Grief”
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— Olivia Gatwood, from “The Lover As A Cult.”
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“Not everything in the heart can be said, so god created sighs, tears, long sleep, cold smile and shivering hands.”
Nizar Qabbani
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“I wait and ache.”
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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Forgive me for what I am.
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— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “To the Desert” from Dark and Perfect (El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 1995) (via lunamonchtuna)
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Jack Gilbert, from “Before Morning in Perugia”, Collected Poems
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