“Snow had fallen. I remember music from an open window. Come to me, said the world.”
— Louise Glück, from October in “Poems 1962-2012″
Tag: quote & words
“My friends, this is not the first trouble we have known. We have suffered worse before, and this too will pass”
– Aeneas, Aeneid 1, Trans. David West
“Night-born beauty.
How sweetly she melts in her sin.”—
František Halas, tr. by Stephan Delbos, from “Malá Strana Night Vision,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)
“I wanted it so much. I don’t know why I wanted it so much.”
— Ernest Hemingway; Cat in the Rain
“Beautiful. Autumn-raw. She must be a witch of some kind,”
— Velimir Khlebnikov, tr. by Gary Kern, from “The Night Before the Soviets,”
(via kaafka)
“And when she thought of him her eyes were kind.”
— Amy Lowell, from Men, Women & Ghosts; “Figurines in Old Saxe,” c. 1929
“His love for me feels like fire,
feels like doves, feels like river-water.”— Li-Young Lee, from ‘This Hour and What is Dead’, The City in Which I Love You: Poems
“Softly, or not at all.”
— Mildred Bowers, from Selected Poems; “Answer,” written c. May 1927
“Cold and damp- that’s how the Southerners view the North. But without the cold, a man can’t appreciate the fire in his hearth. Without the rain, a man can’t appreciate the roof over his head.
Let the South have its sun, flowers, and affectations.
We Northerners have home.”
Jon Snow, in Histories & Lore “The North”
“Queen of ancient days, queen of days to come, bride of dead hearts,”
— Iwan Gilkin, from “Litanies and Prayer,” written c. February 1885
life is not a song 