January 2012
11 posts
“And you’ll sit beside me, and we’ll look, not at visions, but at realities.”
– Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (via turtalia)
“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that...”
– Dave Eggers, What is the What (via bookmania)
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via unfortunatewoman)
In Love, His Grammar Grew by Stephen Dunn
In love, his grammar grew
rich with intensifiers, and adverbs fell
madly from the sky like pheasants
for the peasantry, and he, as sated
as they were, lolled under shade trees
until roused by moonlight
and the beautiful fraternal twins
and and but. Oh that was when
he knew he couldn’t resist
a conjunction of any kind.
One said accumulate, the other
was a doubter who loved the wind
and the mind...
Pablo Neruda- Integrations
14. Integrations
After everything, I will love you As if it were always before As if, after so much waiting, Not seeing you And you not coming, You were breathing close to me forever.
Close to me with your habits, With your colour and your guitar Just as countries unite In school room lectures, And two regions become blurred And there is a river near a river And two volcanoes grow...
