Whitman on being desired https://t.co/BPU23qSF8W
Dearest Bette, You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Erica Jong • Fear of Flying
FOOLISH HEART
By Matt Kagen
Bells are ringing & children singing, but what of the foolish heart?
As the bird goes up and up
As the cup spills out and over
All that is holy is profaned, you know that,
and yet you wonder what I meant when I said that in getting what you want,
you also tend to get what you don't want
You're crazy, I know... See more
