Whiskey Words

"Stay," he pleaded. "We could make a home together." "Don't you know I wish I could," she said. "But you have a tourist heart. Room enough for the essentials but very little else." "My time with you was beautiful," she goes, "But it was never home."

[lifeinpoetry]

Got tired of being a faceless daughter, so I became a poet.

Got tired of of being a rotting altar, so I became a poet.

— Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, from The Easy Body

[deerpoetry]

a poem of mine in By & By, issue 8

[lifeinpoetry]

& because you aren’t here (won’t ever, again, be here) to cover my mouth, I’ll confess, out loud, my love, so maybe perhaps, you will hear me & join me, here where the sun is sweet against the water & because I love you, I will gut this distance with nostalgia, because grief can taste of sugar if you run your tongue along the right edge,

— Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Still, Somehow,” published in The Margins

[yellowpoet]

ferns wrap your ankles, ivy coats your shins, it’s getting hard to tell, in this forest where you dwell, where plant ends and human begins

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[byaseashore]

[purplebuddhaproject]

“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[ambiguities]

[wordsnquotes]

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

[wordsnquotes]

“Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?”

— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

[lovelustquotes]

“You only really wanted me when your life felt empty. And I wanted you in rush hour traffic, a room full of people, even through all the noise.”

— Chloë Frayne

[pulmonaire]

[wordsnquotes]

“I mustn’t look at you too much, or I won’t be able to take my eyes off you at all.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice

[taehyungsart]

Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan for The New York Times

[wordsnquotes]

“Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.”

— Mason Cooley

[wordsnquotes]

“Don’t judge everyone else by your limited experience.”

— Carl Sagan

[hidden--quotes]

“In this sea of strangers, I hope that the waves, Leads me closer to you.”

— J.G.A