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And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs Willard’s kitchen mat.
Sylvia Plath • The Bell Jar (FF Classics)
The art of Roddy’s poems is a trail of breadcrumbs I can follow to be close to his soul and all its raucous contradictions. All the poems, all the songs, all the artworks that I’ve felt adhere to my own soul, perhaps they are the ‘you’ object I have in mind when I sing ‘A Case of You’. The way in which my own soul reaches a fluency. It’s a love son
... See moreAmy Key • Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
E. E. Cummings • [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by E. E.… | Poetry Magazine
Sympathy with the fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes away my breath; yet, like the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
A song like the echo caught in a seashell one of his tutors had brought him from his coastal travels, or the shimmer of a rainbow after a summer rain, tangled between the hills of the valley where he grew up.
Rebecca Roanhorse • Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky Book 1)
Seamus Heaney - Scaffolding
Masons, when they start upon a building,
Are careful to test out the scaffolding;
Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points,
Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints.
And yet all this comes down when the job’s done
Showing off walls of sure and solid stone.
So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be
Old bridges breaking b