Soaked In Soul.

Meanwhile in my head, I'm undergoing open-heart surgery. - Anne Sexton.

278"

Hold me, my dear, hold me.
Put your pale arms around my neck.
Let me hold your heart like a flower
lest it bloom and collapse.
Give me your skin
as sheer as a cobweb,
let me open it up
and listen in and scoop out the dark.
Give me your nether lips
all puffy with their art
and I will give you angel fire in return.

Hold me, my dear, hold me.

" - Anne Sexton, from Rapunzel

142"Listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go." - e.e cummings, from pity this monster, manunkind

51"all the time in the world for you
(my dear)
waiting (like breathing)
must
must
happen.
all the time
for you.
(my dear)" - Kristina Faith, from Must

227"I’ll tell you a dream i had once i was away up in the sky Blue,everything:
there’s just room for me in You
my stomach goes into your Little Stomach
My legs are in your legs Your
arms
under me around; my head fits(my head)in your Brain—my,head’s
big
she(said laughing
)with your head.all big." - e.e cummings, from The Complete Poems

1198"

Let’s stay inside.

Lock the door.
Come to me naked.
No one’s here.

" - Rumi, from Spring Paradox

97"

Here, living with you,
love is still the only subject that matters.
I open to you like a flowering wound,
or a trough in the sea filled with dreaming fish,
or a steaming chasm of earth
split by a major quake.

You changed the topography.
Where valleys were,
there are now mountains.
Where deserts were,
there now are seas.

We rub each other,
but we do not wear away.

The sand gets finer
and our skins turn silk.

" - Erica Jong, from After The Earthquake

2602"Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me." - Nizar Qabbani, In The Summer

158"

Some good-for-nothing — who knows why —
made up the tale that love exists on earth.

People believe it, maybe from laziness
or boredom, and live accordingly:
they wait eagerly for meetings, fear parting,
and when they sing, they sing about love.

But the secret reveals itself to some,
and on them silence settles down.
(I found this out by accident
and now it seems I’m sick all the time.)

" - Anna Akhmatova, from Twenty-First. Night. Monday.

279"

I have a face cut from ice
a heart pierced in a thousand places
so to remember
always the same voice
the same gestures
and my laughter
heavy
as a wall
between you and me

the ones who are most alive
seem the most still

behind the milky way
a shadow dances

our gaze climbs toward the stars.

" - Pablo Picasso, The Morning Of The World

212"

Deepen her,

Recite
upon her
flesh
the rain’s

pearls singly-whispering.

" - e.e cummings, from The Complete Poems

1354"I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it." - Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Short Stories

1953"

You are tired,
(I think)
And so am I.
Tired of things that break, and—
Just tired.
So am I.

Come with me, then,
And we’ll leave it far and far away—
(Only you and I, understand!)

" - e.e cummings, from you are tired (i think)

128"If I lived in a forest and you lived somewhere else, maybe in the forest, maybe not, no difference, just somewhere else, with a different language, and you found me in my forest and we had to talk, had to find out if the other was dangerous, I would point at a waterfall and say, maybe, waterfall and you would say, la fin du monde. We’d stand there looking at each other as if we were talking about the thing or maybe what we wanted from the other. We’d probably point to a few more things. It would feel important. Like the end of the world or maybe like the world itself. Probably, then, we’d realize the world is big. Much bigger than either of us had anticipated, and one of us, without doubt, would walk away." - Christian Anton Gerard, from Probably, Then

2395"What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise." - Katherine Mansfield, from The Collected Letters

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