The Words We Never Said

"Everyone I know rips apart these poems looking for your teeth marks."

[qvotable]

What’s yours will find you.

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[soracities]

Charles Wright, from "A Journal of the Year of the Ox", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 [ID'd]

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, wr. c. Autumn 1880, from The Letters of Emily Dickinson

[eyeofpsyche]

[mournfulroses]

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, translated by Babette Deutsch, from “You Appeared,”

[mournfulroses]

Oscar Wilde, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde

[despazito]

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from her book titled "Night and Day," originally published in 1919

[detailedart]

source

[metamorphesque]

― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

[aaaangel444]

[soracities]

Charles Wright, from "Thinking of Georg Trakl", Country Music: Selected Early Poems [ID'd]

[kosmogrl]

there’s something very beautiful about being able to try again tomorrow

[petaltexturedskies]

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters

[petaltexturedskies]

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from a letter to Robert Browning written c. March 1845

[poetic-questions]

—Richard Siken, "Wishbone"

[mournfulroses]

Charlotte Brontë, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Charlotte Brontë