Ernest Hemingway, from "The Garden of Eden," originally published in 1986
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George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner, from Poems translated from the Greek; "Argonauts,"
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Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "Desert Pools,"
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Marguerite Duras, from The Lover
Text ID: to devour and be devoured,
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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Clive Bell written c. April 1908 featured in The Letters of Virginia Woolf
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when richard siken said “it keeps coming back to that: what do i do with these hands?” and when mitski said “i don't know what to do without you, i don't know where to put my hands” and when olivia gatwood said “what am i, if not yours? what do i do with my hands when they are just hands?” and when sylvia plath said “what did my fingers do before they held him? what did my heart do, with its love?”
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you make me feel like I'm someone worth loving
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Anne Carson (2009)
Arthur S. Way (1898)
George Theodoridis (2010)
Ian C. Johnston (2010)
E.P. Coleridge (1910)
Theodore Alois Buckley (1892)
John Peck, Frank Nisetich (1995)
R. Potter (1906)
M. L. West (1987)
William Arrowsmith (1958)
Philip Vellacott (1972)
Michael Wodhull (1782)
Kenneth McLeish (1997)
David Kovacs (2002)
Andrew Wilson (1993)
Euripides - Original (408 BCE)
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Emily Skaja, from “Dear Ruth”, Brute
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quote from Tôkyô-Girls ☆
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E. E. Cummings, The Complete Poems: 1904-1962
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“I want you desperately. I want your strength and your softness, your hands, all of you.”
Anaïs Nin, from ‘A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953’
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“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.”
Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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— Louise Glück Epithalamium from "Descending Figure.”
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