May 2013
“You only demand clarity because you’re too comfortable within your vagueness;...”
– Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959
“Conventionality is not morality.”
– Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
“Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.”
– Mary Rakow
“I wish to hold you; then drink stardust and say permanently ‘farewell.’”
– John Keats, Letters Of John Keats
“You’ve no idea
how I want to be the blood
pumping through your heart”
– Clementine von Radics, “Morning Haiku”
“in this room
the hours of love
still make shadows.”
– Charles Bukowski
“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
– Gertrude Stein
When my ex tells me that he misses me
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart, concealing it,...”
– William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“This is the sadness of the sea -
waves like words, all broken -
a sameness of...”
– William Carlos Williams, The Descent of Winter, from Collected Poems 1921-1931
“We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Tent
“We live, as we dream - alone.”
– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime....”
– Ray Bradbury 