#selected poems

[fcirfolk]

John Keats, from So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

[petals-and-parchment]

When Sally Rooney wrote, “I am not a religious person, but I do sometimes think god made you for me.” And Emily Brontë wrote, “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” And Paulo Coelho wrote, “I realised that he was my other half , created just to be with me, and I with him.”

[shisasan]

All my useless conjectures Are just weighing me down. June 26, 1904 Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), Selected Poems

[majestativa]

I see you clearer than in a dream. […] Your eyes wear the softest smile.

ALBINO PIERRO — Selected Poems, transl. by Luigi Bonaffini, (2002)

[oresti-s]

Master, Serene, Fernando Pessoa.

[whilereadingandwalking]

Reading Gwendolyn Brooks in Chicago is always a treasure. My first time reading this much of her all at once, and it was lovely.

[blueegrief]

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

—Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems.

[aerizusa]

All the immense images in me, landscapes learned from a distance, cities and towers and bridges and unexpected turns in the ways, and the full force of those lands that once grew intertwined with the gods: all these rise in me, signifying you, my eternal eluder.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems (tr. Susan Ranson and Marielle Sutherland)