[feral-ballad]

Alda Merini, tr. by Susan Stewart, from Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini; “The cry of death”

[Text ID: “heart made of rot and solitude”]

[mournfulroses]

Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "August," featured in White Pine: Poems & Prose Poems

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— danagray

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”

— Elizabeth Berg

[arjunasearth]

there is so so much liberation in letting go though.

[feral-ballad]

Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

[mournfulroses]

Mary Oliver, from New & Selected Poems of Mary Oliver; "A Meeting,"

[feral-ballad]

Margartia Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus

[Text ID: “You were always leaving. I always picture you with a suitcase in your hand. I can’t picture you sitting at a desk. I always see you in motion.”]

[feelingsoftheday]

i know it will pass but it’s heavy.

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson

[petaltexturedskies]

Sappho, If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho (tr. by Anne Carson)

[noonwalkdiary]

i love when i'm in the car at night and i look out the window and the moon is following me. it's so romantic. we've been doing this since i was a child

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[flowerytale]

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Mrs. Maria Clemm, July 1849

[rubydat98]

Some people will see that your heart is pure and purposely mistreat you.

[artandchocolate]

Mahmoud Darwish - “Memory for Forgetfulness” 

[growaglow]

Mary Oliver, from “Evidence”, Devotions

[tkkatherineblog]