April 2010
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to...”
– E.E. Cummings (via tanyaisuppose)
“Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid...”
– Wilhelm Reich (via nathanielstuart) (via booklover)
“You are the storyteller of your life and you can create the legend or not”
– Isabel Allende
First Poem for You by Kim Addonizio I like to touch your tattoos in complete darkness, when I can’t see them. I’m sure of where they are, know by heart the neat lines of lightning pulsing just above your nipple, can find, as if by instinct, the blue swirls of water on your shoulder where a serpent twists, facing a dragon. When I pull you to me, taking you until we’re spent and quiet on the...
Because I love you I have to forget you
Because to love you means to hurt myself
Because to love you means I have to keep hearing my heart break
Because I love you I have to stay away
Because I love you I have to keep my feelings hidden
Because to love you means I have to bear seeing you with another
Because to love you means I want what I can’t have
Because to love you means that...
“I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is...”
– T.S. Eliot (via wordpainting) (via booklover)
♥://shardsofhonesty: If you're above the age of... →
“I” should be capitalized when you’re using it as a pronoun. In all forms. I, I’m, I’ve, I’ll, etc. All the time. No exceptions.
Your and you’re are not the same. YOUR means it belongs to the YOU. YOU’RE means YOU ARE. That’s why there’s an apostrophe. :earn this.
To, two, too. All…
