“[My knees are bent
like the corner of a page.]
I am saving your place.”
— “Maybe I Need You” by Andrea Gibson (via clavicola)
BE MINE
(Source: fyhusky)
“Now I know a language so beautiful and lethal
My mouth bleeds when I speak it.”
— Gwendolyn MacEwen, from “But” (via the-final-sentence)
Whistler by Thomas Powell
“I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.”
— Pablo Neruda, from “Every Day You Play”, in Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, trans. W.S. Merwin (via the-final-sentence)
Teddy Roosevelt’s diary entry from the day his wife died. He never spoke of her death again.
(Source: threeoverten)
“The butterfly never wondered:
it flew.”
— Octavio Paz, from “Example”, in A Tree Within, trans. Eliot Weinberger (via the-final-sentence)
“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
— T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” (thanks, lizchristine)
(Source: the-final-sentence)
