“She’s beautiful. She’s so beautiful she glows in the dark.”
— Margaret Atwood, from “I’m Starved For You,” published c. March 2012
Marianne Moore, from The Selected Poems of Marianne Moore: “In The Public Garden,”
Lang Jingshan (Chinese, 1892-1995) - Au Printemps (For the Spring); Music of the Waterfall
“What do you have to tell me about the state of your soul? Your loves, your nervous crisis, your metaphysical tortures, your lesser concerns, your urbane sensations, and the countless idiots there are in life. Tell me, don’t stay silent, don’t keep quiet.”
— César Vallejo, from a letter to Óscar Imaña written c. January 1918
“No one can sleep anymore —
The bell rings in the mountains.
I melt like the snowy fields,
Rolling the spring sun
In your palms.”
—Kazys Bradūnas, The First Fugue Ⅴ
