‘After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’ Anna Quindlen The Scarlet Ribbon…
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From – A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller 1932-1953
From – A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller 1932-1953 August 14, 1932 Anais: Don’t expect me to be sane anymore. Don’t let’s be sensible. It was a marriage at Louveciennes—you can’t dispute it. I came away…
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André Gide – Prometheus Illbound
“I do not love men: I love what devours them.” André Gide – Prometheus Illbound Painting – Ary Scheffer. 1835
Plato
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” Plato La Grande Odalisque by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres 1780-1867
Alexander Pushkin
“If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.” Alexander Pushkin Modigliani – Seated Female Nude 1916
E.M. Forster – A Passage to India
“He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved.”
E.M. Forster – A Passage to India
18th century Indian Miniature
ee cummings
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhereI go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my…
i like my body when it is with your
i like my body when it is with your i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does,…
Sam Frome – Emerging from the edge.
Sam is a young Poetess who recently relocated to the wilds of Colorado. She describes her political affiliation as “silly hippie communism”. “Waiting” Waiting for your company is like getting through the last 45 minutes of a shift at McDonald’s… Only, when…