with a roar of noise and a glory of daylight

[lascitasdelashoras]

Denise Levertov por Nancy Carrick Holbert, 1967

[derangedrhythms]

Denise Levertov, Relearning the Alphabet: Wanting the Moon; from 'A Cloak'

[nobrashfestivity]

The Secret By Denise Levertov

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

I who don’t know the secret wrote the line. They told me

(through a third person) they had found it but not what it was not even

what line it was. No doubt by now, more than a week later, they have forgotten the secret,

the line, the name of the poem. I love them for finding what I can’t find,

and for loving me for the line I wrote, and for forgetting it so that

a thousand times, till death finds them, they may discover it again, in other lines

in other happenings. And for wanting to know it, for

assuming there is such a secret, yes, for that most of all.

Copyright Credit: Denise Levertov, “The Secret” from O Taste and See: New Poems. Copyright © 1964 by Denise Levertov. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

[majestativa]

The words darkened on the page as we sank into each other.

We are ink & blood.

— Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, (1977)

[cordisfames]

Erica Jong | Where It Begins

[mournfulroses]

Erica Jong, from a poem titled "To John Keats," featured in Loveroot: Poems, originally published in 1975

[gennsoup]

If the joy house I inhabit must be a house of my own making, I accept that making.

Erica Jong, Testament (Or, Homage to Walt Whitman)

[andro-t4t]

So cute

[soracities]

Zbigniew Herbert, "A Knocker", The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 (trans. Alissa Valles) [ID'd]

[lionofchaeronea]

be courageous when reason fails you be courageous / in the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts --Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998), trans. Alissa Valles

[soracities]

Zbigniew Herbert, from "Daedalus and Icarus", The Collected Poems: 1956-1998 (trans. Alissa Valles) [ID'd]

[nortism]

You can never escape the symbolic Waterloo dates!!

[mournfulroses]

Tadeusz Różewicz, tr. by Adam Czerniawski, from “A Sketch for a Modern Love Poem,”

[bhoobhransh]

“philosopher’s stone” by Tadeusz Różewicz

from Exit (2004)

we need to put this poem to sleep

before it starts philosophizing before it starts

fishing for compliments

called to life in a moment of forgetting

sensitive to words glances it looks to a philosopher’s stone for help o passerby hasten your step do not lift up the stone

there a blank verse naked turns to ashes

Taken from here

[mournfulroses]

Takuboku Ishikawa, from a diary entry featured in Romaji Diary and Sad Toys

[mournfulroses]

Takuboku Ishikawa, from a poem featured in On Knowing Oneself Too Well: The Selected Poems of Takuboku Ishikawa

[mournfulroses]

Takuboku Ishikawa, from a poem featured in On Knowing Oneself Too Well: The Selected Poems of Takuboku Ishikawa