no one's gonna take my soul away.

[feral-ballad]

Kayleb Rae Candrilli, from Water I Won’t Touch; “My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow”

[paper-wounds]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[mournfulroses]

Jane Hirshfield, from a poem titled "Today, When I Could Do Nothing," featured in The Asking: New and Selected Poems

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from her book titled "Hekate: the Witch: Poems", published in 2025

[mournfulroses]

Joanna Klink, from her poetry collection The Nightfields: Poems; "Evenings and Days,"

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Emily Henry; People we meet on vacation

[existential-celestial]

“Only she understands him Only her embrace has The shape of his desire”

— Vasko Popa, from “The love of the quartz pebble,” in Selected Poems (tr. Anne Pennington, Penguin Modern European Poets).

[primulaceas]

Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home (translated by Megan McDowell)

[primulaceas]

Natalie Diaz, “Snake-Light.” Postcolonial Love Poem

[victusinveritas]

Gil Elvgren (detail) FASCINATION, 1952

[feral-ballad]

Jeanette Winterson, from The PowerBook

[mashamorevna]

“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrified to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.”

— Anaïs Nin, from Henry & June; A Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1932–1934)

[mournfulroses]

Ivan Bunin, from Sunstroke: Selected Stories of Ivan Bunin; "The Hunchback's Affair,"

[lefildariane]

Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro, 2015).

[astriloquum]

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[carpethedamndiemdejavu]

- James Baldwin talking about Love

[ciarasheart]

[text id: The role of the lover is exactly the same as the role of the artist. If I love you, I must make you aware of the things you do not see. end id]

[owlmylove]

pls drink a lot of wine and be extraordinarily well read and buy too much perfume and write a few too many love letters and spread affection and poetry wherever you go