— Theodore Roethke, from “Straw for the fire.”

Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

jenny holzer

Jumping girls in a spring meadow, 1938 - by Hannes Kilian (1909 - 1999), German

Ilya Kaminsky, from "Musica Humana", Dancing in Odessa: Poems

Denise Warren, Mooncat

procyon lotor

David Anthony - Outfit by Spectrum (19 Magazine 1972)

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

Too smart, too pretty, too creative to not live up to my potential.

Sylvia Plath, Letters Home (August 2, 1952)

Gert Jan Kole 

When a physicist falls in love :)

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

holding my own face in my own hands and screaming “there is no connection without an open heart! you must be brave! you must be honest! you must be true!” in the mirror