I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: that the deity who kills for pleasure will also heal, that in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will come with bandages in her mouth and the soft body of a woman, and lick you clean of fever, and pick your soul up gently by the nape of the neck and caress you into darkness and paradise.
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SUZY KASSEM CALL YOURSELF Look deep in the mirror And say: 'I LOVE YOU' And immediately SUZY KASSEM THE NAKED HEART From womb to tomb, There came and went - Only you. P... SUZY KASSEM Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs, you look like a world, lying in surrender. My ... PABLO NERUDA Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track t... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Looking for Your Face From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your fac... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI in the afterglow of an evening rain i lay down in the grass and think of ... SANOBER KHAN YOUR GREATER ANIMAL They say that if you are Ever confronted by A lion or... SUZY KASSEM I loved you, so I drew these tides of Men into my hands And wrote my will across the ... T.E. LAWRENCE I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come 'ro... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything y... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker do you remember when the earth was just a bab... MARCUS AMAKER Come back to me. Where have you gone? And why so long? I miss the star below your lip... KAMAND KOJOURI Intoxicate me with the beauty and breath of your soul. Leave such imprints on my heart MELODY LEE The Ghost Like angels fierce and tawny-eyed, Back to your chamber I will glide, ROY CAMPBELL, POEMS OF BAUDELAIRE (NEW YORK: PANTHEON BOOKS, 1952) THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS Laugh, I tell you And you will turn back The ... SUZY KASSEM By the Valg, three were made, Of the gate-Stone of the Wyrd: Obsidian the gods forbade SARAH J. MAAS A single word can brighten the face of one who knows the value of words. Ripened in silenc... YUNUS EMRE Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet y... DEREK WALCOTT When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I... BRIAN JACQUES I will take your heart. I will take your soul out of your body As though I were God. ... LANGSTON HUGHES Believe me when I say: 'Out of all those around, she’s the best locksmith in town.' KAMAND KOJOURI The Poet With His Face In His Hands You want to cry aloud for your mistakes.... MARY OLIVER On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the... KAHLIL GIBRAN One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks KAMAND KOJOURI It offends me when you doubt my love. These jealousies are unwarranted. If only you lived ... KAMAND KOJOURI You know, there’s no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman. You can take your ... FIONA THRUST BEWARE OF THOSE Beware of those who are bitter, For they will never allow you T... SUZY KASSEM Ithaka As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of ... CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-... WENDELL BERRY Begin. Keep on beginning. Nibble on everything. Take a hike. Teach yourself to whistle. Lie. ELLEN KORT I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouth... CLEMENTINE VON RADICS Miaow Consider me. I sit here like Tiberius, inscrutable and grand. I will... MARK HADDON You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. ROBERT FAGLES TO ALL MANKIND Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you.... SUZY KASSEM THE THREE LAWS OF ALL You are never to worship a living soul, Except for three entit... SUZY KASSEM My child, I know you're not a child But I still see you running wild Between those floweri... ANTONIA MICHAELIS I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen Of meadow flowers and butterflies... J.R.R. TOLKIEN If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume ADYASHANTI Realise this: one day your soul will depart from your body and you will be drawn behind th... OMAR KHAYYáM Nachkland - Roland Leighton Down the long white road we walked together Down between... ROLAND LEIGHTON Maybe he, like me, is engaged in the kind of unspoken rebellion you don't want to perform ... STASIA WARD KEHOE Jerusalem! My Love,My Town I wept until my tears were dry I prayed until the candles... نزار قباني THE MAXIMS OF MEDICINE Before you examine the body of a patient, Be patient to lear... SUZY KASSEM Pale were your looks; and the rose in your tresses Paler of hue than the dreams we have lost; ... MADISON CAWEIN In trials of ir'n and silver fain “The dead will rise and walk again “The blesséd few... NENIA CAMPBELL Lady of the silver moon Enchantress of the night Protect me and mine within this circle fa... MADELYN ALT Over-thinking, a devouring monster, entice, only the inky reflections; there's a pleasure ... KASHISH GURUNG Suddenly, you will stop, you and me and all of us. Your lungs will rest at last and the electric pul... SARAH MOSS My son, do not forget my teaching, But let your heart keep my commandments; For l... ANONYMOUS I am a creature of the Fey Prepare to give your soul away My spell is passion and it is ... HEATHER ALEXANDER I have a dream... I dream of undoing the damage we've done. I dream of clean ... BROOKE HAMPTON You see her and ascend into love. You become enchanted, a found madman. In yo... KAMAND KOJOURI A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The ... MAYA ANGELOU You are the daughter of the sea, oregano's first cousin. Swimmer, your body is pure as the wat... PABLO NERUDA Oh,you may not think I'm pretty, But don't judge on what you see, I'll eat myself if you... J.K. ROWLING Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must... 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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You know, there’s no pleasure like the joy of being a sexual woman. You can take your ... FIONA THRUST WHAT IS TRUTH? Truth is not a thing Or a concept. It is as multidimensional SUZY KASSEM Elm BY SYLVIA PLATH I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap r... SYLVIA PLATH put some honey and sea water by your bed. acknowledge. that your being needs sweetness NAYYIRAH WAHEED West Wind #2 You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begi... MARY OLIVER The Children's Hour Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning t... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In the Novel He described her mouth as full of ashes. So when he kissed her finally<... SUSAN STEWART I Like For You To Be Still I like for you to be still It is as though you are... PABLO NERUDA There's a depth in you that has yet been discovered. Abyssal and buried it terrifies your ... B. YOUNGZ Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, f... NAOMI SHIHAB NYE When You Are Old When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding b... W.B. YEATS Dear Human: You've got it all wrong. You didn't come here to master unconditional lo... COURTNEY A. WALSH I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; <... PABLO NERUDA Your eyes have fingers that grip me by the collar of my soul & pull me<... CURTIS TYRONE JONES I promise I'll never tell." "Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If t... JERI SMITH-READY who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty... E.E. CUMMINGS a bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so LI-YOUNG LEE Japanese goldfish, With your gossamer tail, You are the loveliest creature I have eve... PAUL GALLICO There was a few seconds' pause. Then Amit said: I meant, what were you thinking just now. 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LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t... LOUISE BROOKS I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange bea... LOUISE BOGAN They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho... LOUISE ERDRICH I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside. LOUISE NEVELSON Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. LOUISE BOGAN I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir... MARIE LOUISE And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refuse... LOUISE SLAUGHTER I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I ca... LOUISE MENSCH My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there... LOUISE ERDRICH I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. ... LOUISE JAMESON This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the mol... LOUISE SLAUGHTER Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity. LOUISE BOGAN Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical a... LOUISE HART The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! LOUISE HART Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming i... LOUISE FRESCO Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing ... LOUISE SLAUGHTER I really believe less is more. When you get older, too much makeup can be ageing, and when you'r... LOUISE NURDING My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In ord... LOUISE ERDRICH For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a b... LOUISE SLAUGHTER Very little is needed to make a happy life, he said. LOUISE ERDRICH Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fea... LOUISE BOURGEOIS The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and ret... LOUISE BROWN I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers. LOUISE NURDING Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's n... LOUISE SLAUGHTER I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I ha... LOUISE POST When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilien... LOUISE ERDRICH