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“…wild things in the darkness of her eyes.”
— Ralph Hodgson, from Eve, And Other Poems (1913); “The Gypsy Girl,”
"Don't compare her to sunshine and roses,
when she's clearly orchids and moonlight."
-Melody Lee
“I live in my own dreams; that’s what you have felt about me. Others live in dreams but not in their own–that’s the difference.”
— Demian | Hermann Hesse, translated by W.J. Strachan
Mary Oliver, from after reading lucretius, I go to the pond in "blue horses: poems"
“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
Kim Addonizio, from What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems; “Missing Boy Blues”
[Text ID: “I’m lying in a field, hope you find me pretty soon. / Lying in a field, hope you find me pretty soon. / I’m afraid of being nothing but a few old bones.”]
““I don’t regret us but I wouldn’t do it again.” - Unknown”
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Ahmed Arif, from “Thirty-Three Bullets,” featured in Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry
“My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.”
— Gail Porter
