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“Look, the small village spreads out among meadows, relaxed. Quiet it’s here. From afar comes the noise of the mill-wheels revolving, but the day’s decline church bells convey to my ear.”
— Friedrich Hölderlin, Selected Poems and Fragments
Tagged: Poetry, Meadows, Bucolic
“You get on a train, you disappear. 
You write your name on the window, you disappear.
There are places like this everywhere,
places you enter as a young girl
from which you never return.”
— Louise Glück, Averno
Tagged: Escapism, Get Away, Growing Pains, Self Discovery, Poetry
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
— John Keats, On The Grasshopper And Cricket
Tagged: Poetry, Earth, Nature, positive, Beauty of Nature, Awe Of Nature, My Favorites
“On February 8, 2009, at 12:30am, Chris Brown 
 beat Rihanna’s face into a landscape of craters 
 and bruises. This is the architecture of violence. 
 Later, Chris Brown described their relationship 
 as being similar to Romeo and Juliet’s. 

In 2013, David O. Russell groped 
his niece’s breasts and claimed 
she had flirted with him first. 

In 1965, Sean Connery told Playboy 
there was nothing wrong with beating a woman. 
That “bloody-minded,” “hysterical,” “bitch” 
women should be hit, should be slapped. 

In 2014, Julia Sonenshein wrote an article 
titled “10 Violent Men Who Are Always Forgiven 
Because Everyone Loves Their Art.” 


They say it’s a myth that mother rabbits
abandon their young in their nests 
after their young have been handled 
by humans. That the scent of humans 
will drive the mother away. 
They say it’s a myth. 
And that the young, no matter how battered 
or bruised, will still be accepted 
by their caregivers. 


But in the human world, the rules change. 
After the rape, most of my rapist’s friends 
abandoned me. One claimed I only wanted 
to profit off my art. 


No one considered that blood 
does not make good paint. 
That trauma is an electric chair 
that singes anyone it can reach. 
It wasn’t my art, remember? 
It was his. 
And he was always forgiven 
because they loved his art.”
— Meggie Royer, It’s Time to Stop Forgiving Our Male Heroes
Tagged: Poetry, Writing, Sexual Assault, Trigger Warning, Rape Culture, Trauma
“Break my heart open. Watch what poetry comes from it. Watch how I grow fiercely into someone who will not shake because of your name.”
— Lora Mathis, Surprising Myself
Tagged: Poetry, Love, Heartbreak, strength, Moving On
“Our epic story began long ago, 
From the day that we met, I loved you so, 
Wish I had the chance to relive the past, 
To change the day our bitter fate was cast.”
— Annamarie Jayne, Blank Page
Tagged: Love, Starting Over, Fate, Second Chances, Destiny, Poetry, Poems
“People are constantly putting up an umbrella that shelters them in a firmament of conventions and opinions. But poets make a slit in the umbrella, they tear open the firmament itself, to let in a bit of free and windy chaos and to frame in a sudden light a vision that appears through the tear. But then the crowd of imitators come and repair the umbrella with something vaguely resembling the vision, and the crowd of commentators who patch over the tear with opinions. Thus other artists are always needed to make other slits, to carry out necessary and perhaps ever-greater destructions, thereby restoring to their predecessors the incommunicable novelty that we could no longer see.”
— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
Tagged: Art, Aesthetics, Making Chaos, Reframing, Creative Destruction, What Poetry Does, Poetry, Engendering Novelty, Make It New
“And I, infinitesima­l being, 
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.”
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Tagged: Love, Stars, Poetry, The Universe
“So what I’m trying to say is you should text me back. Because there’s a precedent. Because there’s an urgency. Because there’s a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and if you don’t respond soon, I won’t know if you’d wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”
— Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness
Tagged: Poetry, Relationships, Communication, Urgency, Texting, Passion, Love, Young Love
“Tripping over my own tongue, as hurtful words spill forth… caught tenderly, in the soft pocket, of your forgiveness.”
— Gildas Poems, Forgive Me
Tagged: forgiveness, Poems, Poetry, Hurtful Words, Love
“I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of Imagination. What the Imagination seizes as Beauty must be Truth.”
— John Keats, The Complete Poems of John Keats [Illustrated]
Tagged: Poetry, Beatuy, Truth
“I feel ancient, as though I had lived many lives.”
— Gary Snyder, Four Poems For Robin
Tagged: Life, Time, Tired, Poetry, Routine, Midlife Crisis, Growing Pains, Monotony
“The poets have lamented the power of time to sweep away every object of their love.”
— Bertrand Russell, A History Of Western Philosophy
Tagged: Poetry, Art, Love, Heartbreak
“I kiss your shattered ego and say, “Here, take mine.” 
“Take all I have.” 
So you take it all 
and leave 
for the girl I could taste all along.”
— Ari Eastman, When He’s Sleeping With Her And You Don’t Know It
Tagged: Giving Everything In Love, Losing Yourself In Love, Giving Yourself In Love, Love, Poetry
“When I try to come back to you, 
the plane descending not through sky, 
but through the chalky white
of a snow cloud, what will be waiting?”
— Gwen Hart, "Losing Ohio," Losing Ohio
Tagged: Returning To You, Finding Love, Waiting For Love, Discovering Love, Love, Poetry
“I am not hungry, but I will eat 
because my stomach is the kind 
of empty 
I can fill.”
— Ashe Vernon, BREAK UP BLUES
Tagged: Hunger, Lust, Emptiness, Cheating, Dating, Poetry
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; 
I lift my lids and all is born again.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
Tagged: Poetry, Life, perseverance, Inspirational
“Silly me. I thought love was real & the body imaginary.”
— Ocean Vuong, Eurydice
Tagged: Poetry, Heartbreak, Love, Fool, Dating
“It’s not about the light — but how dark it makes you depending on where you stand.”
— Ocean Vuong, Eurydice
Tagged: Light, Darkness, Perspective, Philosophy, Deep Thoughts, Poetry
“When I take up space, please know:
it will not be on your terms...

If there are worse things plaguing the earth
in dire need of attention, perhaps
it isn't on me to transfix you elsewhere.”
— Orooj-e-Zafar, From Kim, With Love
Tagged: Kim Kardashian, Pop Culture, Confidence, Self love, Perspective, Poetry

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