[stlowens]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals

[stlowens]

Sylvia Plath, from “Elm.”

[primulaceas]

Mary Oliver, “Dogfish.” Dream Work

[korunak]

saul steinberg, holly warburton

[quotemadness]

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

— Oprah Winfrey

[primulaceas]

Natalie Diaz, “Manhattan Is a Lenape Word.” Postcolonial Love Poem

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[theotreptos]

To be a self-sustaining woman. To be a candid woman. To be an aware woman. To be a private woman. To be a woman for no one other than myself.

[shisasan]

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[crucifiedlovers]

“And in our eyes the same sadness, like a night landscape.”

— Marguerite Duras, Blue Eyes, Black Hair (trans. Barbara Bray)

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(Pantheon, 1988)

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“it took me centuries to reach you but now i feel so momentous and on time”

— Adeline Fecker, from “Venus,” The Journal of Wild Culture (12 May 2019)

[seemoreandmore]

“Autumn approaches and the heart begins to dream.”

— Bashō, from The Sound of Water: Haiku by Bashō, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets

[soracities]

“Most of all, I’d like to be a poem, to reach your heart and stay.”

— Nathaniel Handal,  from “Love Letter,” Poetry (March 2021)

[primulaceas]

Audre Lorde, “Digging.” The Black Unicorn

[primulaceas]

Mary Oliver, “Dogfish.” Dream Work

[ma7moud-5allaf]

"واحرص على حفظ القلوب من الأذى فرجوعها بعد التنافر يصعب."

علي بن أبي طالب

[luthienne]

Lucille Clifton, from The Book of Light; “Climbing”