“Inside the heart, a murmur of poems.”
— Sam Roxas-Chua, from “Dearest Federico,” Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater (Lithic Press, 2017)
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“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully you leave something good behind.” Anthony Bourdain ( June 25th 1956 – June 8th 2018 )
“I must live it inside of me, I have to dream it.”
— Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from “The Voice I Owe To You,”
“When I woke
the morning light was just slipping
in front of the stars
and I was covered
with blossoms.”— Mary Oliver, from Blue Iris (via luthienne)
“At night when the moon was mine
& the hungry wind held me high,
I knew I could never
be grounded again.”— M.E. Silverman, from “Love Poem for Wings,” The Floating Door: Poems (Glass Lyre Press, 2018)
“Your moon-kissed roses seem better than love or sleep,”
— Ernest Dowson, from The Poems of Ernest Dowson; “Spleen,”
“Don’t look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.”
— Henry Miller
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“You have the blood of a poet. You have that and always will. You show, in the middle of savage things (that I like), the gentleness of your heart, that is so full of pain and light.”
— Federico García Lorca, from a letter to Miguel Hernández wr. c. April 1933
“It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.”
— Barbara Kingsolver
“I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.”
— Nikita Gill
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