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Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,

Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….


Sappho

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But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going
To have ...
DR. SEUSS I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from be...
DR. SEUSS (THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL) Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus."

"That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of cours...
RICK RIORDAN ...This is Detective Miller. He died when Eros hit Venus and now he's a puppet of the protomolecule....
JAMES S.A. COREY What if dragons breathed bubbles
and purred when they cuddled
and giggled at chivalrous ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH A land not mine, still
forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh. ANNA AKHMATOVA Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the strangest,
Most unpredictable hou...
SUZY KASSEM He came to read; two or three books
are lying open: history and poetry.
But after just ten...
C.P. CAVAFY Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
SAPPHO Through countless births in the cycle of existence
I have run, not finding
although seek...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Troubles run.
Fast and far . . .
Past the mountains
Behind a star.
BYRD BAYLOR OY! Stop playing around and lets cook already!"
*smack*
J-just now, that made a really lou...
NATSUKI TAKAYA The noisy jay swoops by and reviles me, he complains of my meow and my malingering.

I too...
HENRY N. BEARD First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies...
J.K. ROWLING I won't be stuck in traffic 'til I see how rugged my path is
And right now I'm loving how fast ...
CRISS JAMI A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something rela...
ANNE CARSON TO the garden, the world, anew ascending,
Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,
Th...
WALT WHITMAN Sapphic Chords

On what marble stones would you scratch your love today?
Spray it on ...
NANCY BOUTILIER I am starting to accept
that you never loved me.
And it's sad
because I don't think y...
SADE ANDRIA ZABALA Here I am at these crossroads again,
wondering what will never become of me.
Now and then,...
JEROD MANKIN We must have a creature made of Darkness to break through the cage of Darkenss that imprisons your g...
P.C. CAST Let all the green leaves be mine
as long as the trees define
shades created by their limb...
MUNIA KHAN You prank me
…

You fuck with me
…

You screw me up

…...
DEYTH BANGER Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it m...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Dinner at eight was okay
before the toast full of gleams.
It was great until those old magaz...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Not to be born at all
Is best, far best that can befall,
Next best, when born, with least ...
SOPHOCLES ...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
ZORICA SAVRON JAMIE'S SONG 'KILL ME':

In the darkness of the night,
you come to me to fight.
...
NEHA YAZMIN As the baby latched on with surprising fierceness, the nurse offered her own prayer.
Let her be...
KIERSTEN WHITE Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
Words you can’t have back, so they li...
COCO J. GINGER Now and again there's a moment,
when the heart cries aloud:
yes, I am willing to be
t...
MARY OLIVER A dragon grows in leaps and bounds,
Like troubles mounting by the pound.

Its stature...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH You and I
Again and again
Always almost
Never enough.

- A world of almos...
AYUSHEE GHOSHAL We are strengthening by different experiences in life;
Sad times, happy moments.
Poverty, ...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The sun shines through the window
And the sun shines through your hair
It seems like you'r...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER And do I ask, wherefore my heart
Falters, oppressed with unknown needs?
Why some inexpli...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Shall I speak of the consequence
One, that your attention causes?

Words you utter ke...
ZUBAIR AHSAN Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and...
SUZANNE COLLINS What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine
The fleet limbs of the antelope?
What but fear w...
ROBINSON JEFFERS The struggling poet and writer
dreams again
of standing on stage
and reading his lin...
AVIJEET DAS 2AM where do i begin,
Crying off my face again,
The silent sound of lonliness,
Wants ...
CHRISTINA PERRI Tonight, It's not about You, Tonight It's about Me,
It's about How Your absence, troubles me, SYED MURTAZA HAROON May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros)
And may Hades roast your ...
SHERRILYN KENYON Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again, ...
FRANK O'HARA sometimes i don't know, which moment
which cool gust of wind will come,
and enchant me
SANOBER KHAN Of course he freaked me out.
Of course it's nothing to do with me.
But none of that matt...
EMMA FORREST We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and be...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, ...
ANNE CARSON Find yourself a cup of tea,
the teapot is behind you.
Now tell me about
hundreds of t...
SAKI Me: I think we should have sex again.
Royce: Bad idea.
Me: Why?
Royce: I want more fr...
GENA SHOWALTER I was only kidding about the hundred," she says.

oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions t...
VERA NAZARIAN Life has pounded me down
and thrashed me around,
Time and time again,
But I always ge...
SUZY KASSEM I don't say this to hurt you, love." The endearment slipped out without me even thinking about it. JESSICA VERDAY Well, Watson.'
'Yes, Holmes?
'I believe the wheel has turned yet again–and now it's back...
KEN LUDWIG Well he didn't treat my mother very well. He did some horrible things."
"Like..." I hesitated. ...
RICHELLE MEAD just heard a commercial
which told me
Farmer John smokes his own
bacon.
now, the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm still looking for someone
Who said they were here for me,
And I thought I was once the...
MARGO T. ROSE Does it give you deja voodoo how alike the houses are?"
"That's deja vu, and I hate you right n...
RACHEL CAINE I that in heill was and gladnèss
Am trublit now with great sickness
And feblit with infir...
WILLIAM DUNBAR I'll be your family now," he says.
"I love you," I say. (....)
He stares at me. I wait wi...
VERONICA ROTH Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. Wh...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY if i could do it all again
i would've loved me more
instead of waiting on you
R.H. SIN The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed,...
OGDEN NASH Eros mumbled something.
"I'm sorry?" said Aphrodite.
"Whatwouldjesusdo."
"What would ...
MARIE PHILLIPS Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
ANNA AKHMATOVA Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to kn...
DR. SEUSS I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You’re impossible.” I sighed. “And really weird. No wonder Jared likes you.”
“Is that...
REA LIDDE Listen to me. When a man wakes, he wakes wanting. He wakes hard and rude and aching with need.” He...
TESSA DARE Twenty-two hours and our war begins

Our war of limbs

and lips COLLEEN HOOVER I'll fall.'
'You wont fall.'
'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.'
As I said it, I cou...
KAMILA SHAMSIE Now the tattoos," Zia announced.
"Brilliant!" I said.
"On your tongue," she added.
"E...
RICK RIORDAN So for now,
I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,
And the next time I see you,<...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I forgot to sup
annoyance
from his glass full of
mingled dread and rage
Now let ...
MUNIA KHAN Edward,' she mumbled softly.

She was dreaming of me.

Could a dead, frozen hear...
STEPHENIE MEYER Luke and I stay nestled together until he nudges me.
We’d better get going, he says gently.<...
CAT PATRICK Nothing is endless
I know that now
Let me go
V
-Violet's letter
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON Love me, beloved; Hades and Death
Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
These hands, tha...
GEORGE MACDONALD Now she is ignoring me as first

...

AS second


Not every word...
DEYTH BANGER Walk

Million miles away
Your signal in the distance
To whom it may concern
FOO FIGHTERS After the second world war
in 1948
they founded the UN,
the United Nations
so th...
AD DE BONT see me now
your severed daughter
laughing our name into echo
all the world shall reme...
AUDRE LORDE Now I'm dreaming, will I ever find you now?
I walk in circles but I'll never figure out
Wh...
ELLIE GOULDING I only meant the impulsive part."
"I'm a passionate person, that's all."
His mouth turned ...
JODI MEADOWS FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus,
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be dam...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Japanese goldfish,
With your gossamer tail,
You are the loveliest creature
I have eve...
PAUL GALLICO now it’s computers and more computers
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers o...
THOMAS F. HEALEY Look up here, I'm in heaven!
I've got scars that can't be seen
I've got drama, can't be st...
DAVID BOWIE Deep in the meadow, under the willow
a bed of grass, a soft green pillow
lay down your he...
SUZANNE COLLINS We
are Adam and Eve
born out of chaos called
creation
Ribbing me gave you life MEGAN MCCAFFERTY I don’t know why everyone
is still trying to find out
whether heaven and hell exist. KAMAND KOJOURI Soothe and sly stamina with a short sword they slice
They are beyond precise making the victim ...
JUSTIN BIENVENUE Let me show you how beautiful life is,
Let me take away all your pain;
Let me rekindle you...
ANAMIKA MISHRA I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think

of the fire...
SANOBER KHAN Scenes from the Playroom

Now Lucy with her family of dolls
Disfigures Mother with a...
R.S. GWYNN I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I h...
SARA TEASDALE

More Sappho

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
SAPPHO Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorro...
SAPPHO Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will al...
SAPPHO The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven ...
SAPPHO Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.
SAPPHO their heart grew cold
they let their wings down
SAPPHO Wealth without real worthiness
Is no good for the neighbourhood;
But their proper mixture<...
SAPPHO You are, I think, an evening star,
the fairest of all the stars.
SAPPHO Οἶον τὸ γλυκύμαλον ἐρεύθεται ἄκρῳ ἐπ᾽ ὔσδῳ ἄκρο�...
SAPPHO You will have memories
Because of what we did back then
When we were new at this,
SAPPHO I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we ...
SAPPHO Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die
SAPPHO When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a del...
SAPPHO Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
SAPPHO How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
SAPPHO The evening star

Is the most
beautiful
of all stars
SAPPHO Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! Fo...
SAPPHO We shall enjoy it

As for him who finds
fault, may silliness
and sorrow take him...
SAPPHO When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly
SAPPHO ...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has ...
SAPPHO In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia

because I prayed
this word:
SAPPHO There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
SAPPHO