“Tell me, in storms, that you love me.”
— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth; “That You Love Me,”
“Tell me, in storms, that you love me.”
— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth; “That You Love Me,”
“The sadness won’t go away. Learn to turn it into an art.”
— Hira (via hedonistpoet)
“You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.”
— Sylvia Plath
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“If you ever ask me how many times you’ve crossed my mind, I would say once. Because you came, and never left.”
— Ritu Ghatourey (via quotemadness)
“This poem is the poem about how I lost you before I even had you.”
— Karese Burrows, from “After We Kissed,” L'Éphémère Review (no. II, November/December 2017)
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“Do not condemn me to the torture of loving you, losing you, and having life yet left to live.”
—
María Josefa García Granados, tr. by Lina M. Ferreira, from “Farewell,”
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“His love for her was the core of his life. There is a great danger to such a love. When the loved one is lost, the life is lost. It crumbles to pieces.”
— Tennessee Williams, from The Collected Stories; “Something by Tolstoi,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)

