#poe

My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My heart expands, 'tis grown a bulge in it, Inspired by your beauty... Effulgent. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#beauty

I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#loss #love #poem #poetry #beauty

twice I have lived forever in a smile ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#love #poetry #smiling #love

Women Are Not Roses Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not oceans or stars. i would like to tell her this but i think she already knows. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#poetry #roses #strength #beauty

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul. ↗

— Gabriela Mistral

#poetry #beauty

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#poetry #beauty

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#beauty #eyes #hope #perspective #poetry

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! ↗

— Frank O'Hara

#beauty

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#distortion #poetry #beauty

Hope is a most beautiful drug. ↗