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“Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear,”
— Jean Toomer, from Cane: Poems; “November Cotton Flower,” wr. c. 1923
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If Not, Winter — Sappho (tr. Anne Carson)
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“Now, I demand a love that is stupid and beautiful, like a pilot turning off her engines mid-flight to listen for rain on wings.”
— Paige Lewis, from “Pavlov was the Son of a Priest” published in Ploughshares (via lifeinpoetry)
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“Meanwhile, your life and my life have kissed.”
— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems; “Night of Love In Three Cantos,”
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You and I are so strangely near,
Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from Selected Works; “Dedication,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
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Leo Tolstoy, from a diary entry written c. September 1862 featured in “Selected Works,” (x)
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rip ee cummings, who died today in 1962 and did not live to see the hashtag
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Kiss me like you wanna be loved
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Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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“I can’t be apart from you any more.”
— Victor Hugo, tr. by Paul Weinfield, from “Tomorrow at Dawn,”
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“…What do I want from you? What I want from all of poetry and from each line of a poem: the truth of this moment.”
— Marina Tsvetayeva in a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke, August 22 1926, from Letters: Summer 1926 (New York Review Books, 2001)