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#poetry

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I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. ↗


— Martin C. Smith


#bed #big #book #collections #goes

She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die. ↗


— Emily Dickinson


#film

Mornings at Blackwater" For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always it assuaged me from the dry bowl of the very far past. What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is, and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. ↗


— Mary Oliver


#imagination

From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside. ↗


— Rita Dove


#poetry #writing #love

We made love outdoors Without a roof, I like most, Without stove, to make love, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and gushing of dew. ↗


— Roman Payne


#love #making-love #naturalist #naturism #nudist

. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing ↗


— Eavan Boland


#love

This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing. ↗


— Paul Laurence Dunbar


#love

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us. ↗


— Glenway Wescott


#love #poetry #secrecy #love

If you were queen of pleasure And I were king of pain We'd hunt down love together Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were queen of pleasure And I were king of pain. ↗


— Algernon Charles Swinburne


#poetry #love

Car j'ai vécu de vous attendre, Et mon coeur n'était que vos pas. ↗


— Paul Valéry


#poetry-quotes #love






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