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The yellow glistens.
It glistens with various yellows,
Citrons, oranges and greens
Flowering over the skin.


Wallace Stevens

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The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing els...
WALLACE STEVENS Saturday is full of orange oranges,
Sunday is full of pink apples,
Monday is full of green...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbe...
L. DUARTE Invisible

She scanned through the magazine
for girls who looked like her
with d...
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her

that
the ink AMANDA LOVELACE The colors kind of take on a very earthy tone, but with a richness of a forest or a garden. Dark gre...
ANNA SUI My cup is yellow
Or not, though not's

Impossible
It's yellow
ARAM SAROYAN Your skin has a memory.
In ten, twenty, thirty years from now,
your skin will show the re...
JANA ELSTON Your skin has a memory.
In ten, twenty, thirty years from now,
your skin will show the re...
JANA ELSTON The color goes from black, which is absolutely great, and liquid colors, to pastels, to chinos and n...
DONNA KARAN Daffodowndilly

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She...
A.A. MILNE Let it shine, the light in you.
Oh, and that's delighting me!
Various colors shining thr...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES ...and so many colors
I will have seen...
the menacing greys
and pine greens
the...
SANOBER KHAN forcing manhood
on boys with skin
still made of
silk and mother's love
is cruel
IJEOMA UMEBINYUO The goldenrod is yellow,
The corn is turning brown...
The trees in apple orchards
Wit...
HELEN HUNT JACKSON ...flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender s...
MUSE Moving right along
In search of good times
And good news,
With good friends you can't...
JIM HENSON Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.'

'Ad,...
SARAH DESSEN I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, Ho...
DOROTHY PARKER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES At birth and at dawn
for each and every day
it triumphs over the eclipse.

It i...
AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN and you invented me
and I invented you
and that's why we don't
get along
on this...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Blue to get ready
Green to go
Yellow to guide you through the snow
Orange to warn you...
ANGIE SAGE O yellow eye,
let me be sick with your heat,
let me be feverish and frowning.
ANNE SEXTON She turned to the sunlight
    And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbo...
A.A. MILNE Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
An...
JACK GILBERT The stoniest of greens
Plague queens not yet queens
Just one beneath can steal the sleep SHANNON HALE My child, I know you're not a child
But I still see you running wild
Between those floweri...
ANTONIA MICHAELIS Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd
T...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I never see that prettiest thing-
A cherry bough gone white with Spring-
But what I think,...
DOROTHY PARKER While walking in a toy store
The day before today,
I overheard a Crayon Box
With many thin...
ANON. My friend once told me
she liked this guy because of his hands
And I found it absurd that ...
CAROL SHLYAKHOVA I cannot live with you,
It would be life,
And life is over there
Behind the shelf
EMILY DICKINSON For the Wife Beater's Wife

With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue
Circling to ...
BRUCE WEIGL tread carefully
into my life, my dear.

the currents
are strong.

you...
SANOBER KHAN Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas?

How do the oranges divide up sunlight...
PABLO NERUDA whatever you do
be gentle with yourself.
you don’t just live
in this world
or ...
SANOBER KHAN Dreaming at the Ballet"

The truth is, goddesses are lousy in bed.
They will do anyth...
JACK GILBERT Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands.
Curtsied when you have and kissed
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How long?"

His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest."

For ever?"

MAGGIE STIEFVATER I want to fall to sleep with you,
and I could care less
whether it is in
layers up...
BEAU TAPLIN She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched f...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together. AVA. At a night like this,
where it's just me and the yellow moon,
I feel complete.
KAMAND KOJOURI Is it odd, my love,
that I envy others
who have not met you
for the intoxication t...
KAMAND KOJOURI YOU YOU YOU

your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook
crackling and yellow, curli...
CLINT CATALYST ...
You can colour your eyes…
You can put on your skin tattoo…
...

- ...
DEYTH BANGER The yellow moon dreamily
tipping buttons of light
down among the leaves. Marimba,
mar...
DENISE LEVERTOV The door is cracked

We used to meet
like water does land
no
not that
...
DAVE MATTHES How do we exorcise one of the Jinn?"

He shrugged. "You got Yellow Pages?"
"Seriousl...
SAMANTHA YOUNG The seasons are shifting, The winter shades lifting,
The springtime is filling
Earth's childre...
DAVID E. BUMBAUGH Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one travele...
ROBERT FROST Maybe I should stop while I'm ahead

Nay, I swim with sea-demons

no sweet summ...
MOONSHINE NOIRE Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below,
Over the housetops, over th...
THOMAS J. WATSON do you dare to step in-
to the vulnerable black, stripped
to the soul with human blindnes...
BETH MOREY It was quite impossible to describe.

Here is what it looked like.

It looked li...
TERRY PRATCHETT If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options.

You can climb it and cross to...
VERA NAZARIAN To him who, in the love of Nature, holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A variou...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT MY MOTHER GETS DRESSED

It is impossible for my mother to do even
the simplest...
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB Roads Go Ever On

Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves wher...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Our marriage began
with knots and fangs;
vows inked on skin.
Black venom stained
JALINA MHYANA we met one strange summer

in a regular tangle of sticky webs

you had the air o...
MOONSHINE NOIRE You write poems with your fingertips
And I keep listening to the songs written on my skin
...
SANHITA BARUAH Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And tonight our skin, our bones,
that have survived our fathers,
will meet, delicate in th...
ANNE SEXTON As for life,
I'm humbled,
I'm without words
sufficient to say

how it has b...
MARY OLIVER Last night
the rain
spoke to me
slowly, saying,
what joy
to come falling MARY OLIVER I mean, have you ever imagined

the ocean is alive, and needs to tell us something importa...
JEFFREY MCDANIEL Let us arise and go now
to the Isle of Manisfree
and live the true blue simple life
o...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I felt angry,
frustrated.
I felt I didn't belong, not in my,

church, not in my...
ELLEN HOPKINS The life spills over, some days.
She cannot be at rest,
Wishes she could explode

ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Amor"

So many days, oh so many days
seeing you so tangible and so close,
how do...
PABLO NERUDA The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunch...
CARL SANDBURG The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent hau...
CARL SANDBURG Had a cold hummus with pita bread,
Under a delicious food, yellow or red.
Might just hav...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Nothing touches your skin of sweat
(meltdown of oceanic kisses)
when the purple light
BEAR STEP If I were a cinnamon peeler
I would ride your bed
and leave the yellow bark dust
on y...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE There once was a girl who found herself dead.
She peered over the ledge of heaven
and saw ...
JANDY NELSON The summer has seized you,
as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw
lemons as large as your de...
ANNE SEXTON I mean, have you ever imagined

the ocean is alive, and needs to tell us something importa...
JEFFREY MCDANIEL In her eyes was the reflection of everything that mattered: old diners with neon signs, vinyl record...
REBECCA MCNUTT Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . .

And it is as t...
AL-MUTANABBī so your father told you once
that you were his princess
you won't see the castle
you ...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do:

"Gravity'...
CAROLINE KEPNES during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
whores
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Did I ever tell you about the man
who taught his asshole to talk?

His whole abdomen ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS It’s not her shape,
her face, or her hair
that makes her beautiful.
Neither is it t...
PIERRE ALEX JEANTY I don’t exist
metal pressed to pages
spilling blood, ink
in vein each thought rages...
ABBY MUSGROVE I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference...
BARBARA BLATNER Why do I read?
I just can't help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to laugh
and ...
GARY PAULSEN Let me say right now for the record,
I’m still going to be here
asking this world to dan...
ANDREA GIBSON You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—”
HARPER LEE Some people
Are worthy of a bullet straight
to the heart because that is where
cruelt...
ELLEN HOPKINS Yellow is the colour of the sun.
Blue is the colour of the sky.
Green is the colour of gra...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Welcome in my glass room.. Where words are shattered into meaning. Where sun glistens of the stained...
MARK HOOIJMANS You get older
and you are a whole mess of things,
new thoughts, sorry feelings,
big p...
VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF My father, father!' - she might pray to the winds;
no innocence moves her judges mad for war. <...
AESCHYLUS Why I Wake Early

Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning
...
MARY OLIVER Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.

Feel it sweep along your skin in an inv...
VERA NAZARIAN No Difference

Small as a peanut,
Big as a giant,
We're all the same size
W...
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DAN STEVENS I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not some...
DAN STEVENS At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I ...
DAN STEVENS I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I...
DAN STEVENS I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep ...
DAN STEVENS As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I...
DAN STEVENS I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I...
DAN STEVENS In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it&...
DAN STEVENS Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People wa...
DAN STEVENS My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of E...
DAN STEVENS We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby ...
DAN STEVENS I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awe...
DAN STEVENS All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others....
DAN STEVENS Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of ...
CAT STEVENS I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far rem...
CAT STEVENS Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
ABEL STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million way...
CAT STEVENS Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
R. STEVENS Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
STUART STEVENS I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting m...
DAN STEVENS I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset ...
FISHER STEVENS Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
CAT STEVENS I think having children is the most amazing thing.
RACHEL STEVENS I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by an...
CONNIE STEVENS Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.
CONNIE STEVENS A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair ...
DAN STEVENS The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in...
DAN STEVENS I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.
CONNIE STEVENS My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.
CONNIE STEVENS I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
CONNIE STEVENS I am a New Yorker.
CONNIE STEVENS I love being Italian.
CONNIE STEVENS I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled...
CONNIE STEVENS Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, the...
CONNIE STEVENS It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
CONNIE STEVENS She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.
CONNIE STEVENS