“
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I 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 sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Lovers alone wear sunlight.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.
”
”
Rosemarie Urquico
“
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
”
”
E.E. Cummings (Selected Poems)
“
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,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you so quite new.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
twice I have lived forever in a smile
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
I love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and I like you better
than everything in the sky.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
let it go -- the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise -- let it go it
was sworn to
go
let them go -- the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers -- you must let them go they
were born
to go
let all go -- the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things -- let all go
dear
so comes love
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old
may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young
and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there's never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile
”
”
E.E. Cummings (E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 (Revised, Corrected, and Expanded Edition))
“
love is thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea
love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive
it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Love is the whole and more than all.
”
”
E.E. Cummings (100 Selected Poems)
“
Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
yes is a world
& in this world of yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down
on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity
i hate you
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
may i feel said he
(i'll squeal said she
just once said he)
it's fun said she
(may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he)
why not said she
(let's go said he
not too far said she
what's too far said he
where you are said she)
may i stay said he
(which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she
may i move said he
is it love said she)
if you're willing said he
(but you're killing said she
but it's life said he
but your wife said she
now said he)
ow said she
(tiptop said he
don't stop said she
oh no said he)
go slow said she
(cccome?said he
ummm said she)
you're divine!said he
(you are Mine said she)
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Be of love (a little)
More careful
Than everything
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one
”
”
E.E. Cummings (Selected Poems)
“
who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty people?
( and if you and I should
get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where
always
it's
Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves
”
”
E.E. Cummings (Collected Poems)
“
love is the every only god
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did
Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain
children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more
when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her
someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream
stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)
one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was
all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.
Women and men (both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain
”
”
E.E. Cummings (Selected Poems)
“
Miracles are to come.
With you I leave a remembrance
of miracles: they are by
somebody who can love
and who shall be continually reborn,
a human being.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
If
"If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie,
Life would be delight,--
But things couldn't go right
For in such a sad plight
I wouldn't be I.
If earth was heaven and now was hence,
And past was present, and false was true,
There might be some sense
But I'd be in suspense
For on such a pretense
You wouldn't be you.
If fear was plucky, and globes were square,
And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee
Things would seem fair,--
Yet they'd all despair,
For if here was there
We wouldn't be we.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.
”
”
E.E. Cummings (100 Selected Poems)
“
dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)
trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)
honour the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at this wedding)
never mind a world
with its villains or heroes
(for god likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
love being such, or such,
the normal corners of your heart
will never guess how much
my wonderful jealousy is dark
”
”
E.E. Cummings (E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 (Revised, Corrected, and Expanded Edition))
“
sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva sweet love
(all the merry little birds are
flying in the floating in the
very spirits singing in
are winging in the blossoming)
lovers go and lovers come
awandering awondering
but any two are perfectly
alone there's nobody else alive
(such a sky and such a sun
i never knew and neither did you
and everybody never breathed
quite so many kinds of yes)
not a tree can count his leaves
each herself by opening
but shining who by thousands mean
only one amazing thing
(secretly adoring shyly
tiny winging darting floating
merry in the blossoming
always joyful selves are singing)
sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva sweet love
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
it may not always be so; and i say
that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch
another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch
his heart, as mine in time not far away;
if on another's face your sweet hair lay
in such a silence as i know,or such
great writhing words as, uttering overmuch,
stand helplessly before the spirit at bay;
if this should be, i say if this should be-
you of my heart, send me a little word;
that i may go unto him, and take his hands,
saying, Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Her handwriting was curious small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).
”
”
Erich Segal (Love Story (Love Story, #1))
“
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all:
nothing false and possible is love
(who's imagined,therefore limitless)
love's to giving as to keeping's give;
as yes is to if,love is to yes
”
”
E.E. Cummings (I : Six Nonlectures)
“
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
”
”
Catullus (Carmina (Oxford Classical Texts))
“
Until they rip us apart, and even then, I'll fight.
”
”
Lindsay Cummings (The Murder Complex (The Murder Complex, #1))
“
- Nu se poate să nu te mai văd, Diana.
- De ce? am întrebat, curioasă și ironică.
- Nu știu... ești altfel. N-aș putea să-ți spun cum ești. Nu m-aș pricepe. Îmi placi cum nu mi-a mai plăcut nimeni. Ești singura fată lângă care nu mă plictisesc. Poate că te iubesc... nu știu. N-am mai iubit niciodată. Și nu vreau să folosesc cuvinte pe care nu le înțeleg. Am avut câteva întâlniri cu fete... Aș fi vrut să întâlnesc o femeie. Înțelegi? Tu ești și femeie, și fată, și fetiță... și copil...
”
”
Cella Serghi (Pânza de păianjen)
“
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any---lifted from the no
of all nothing---human merely being
doubt unimaginably You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
”
”
E.E. Cummings (100 Selected Poems)
“
All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Your security and love of life don't depend on the presence of another, but only on yourself, your chosen work, and your developing identity. Then you can safely choose to enrich your life by marrying another person, and not, as e e cummings says, until.
”
”
Sylvia Plath (Letters Home)
“
Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
success than enquire whose soul dangles from his
watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both
parties and because you
unflinchingly applaud all
songs containing the words country home and
mother when sung at the old howard
Humanity i love you because
when you're hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink and when
you're flush pride keeps
you from the pawn shops and
because you are continually committing
nuisances but more
especially in your own house
Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down
on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity
i hate you
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
So truly perfectly the skies
by merciful love whispered were,
completes its brightness with your eyes
any illimitable star.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
- Nu crezi dumneata în iubire? Nu te atrage iubirea?...
- Ba da, mă atrage... Poate că e singurul rost al unei vieţi mărginite, comune, cum e viața noastră. Şi-mi place... dar ştiu că nu durează... că nu corespunde unei realităţi... Îmi place mult să privesc o noapte cu lună... şi uneori stau vreme îndelungată la fereastra mea, privind, dar ştiu bine că luna e altceva decât ceea ce pare... Nu întind mâna s-o prind... E mult şi ceea ce dă, fără intenţie şi sforţare.
”
”
Camil Petrescu (Patul lui Procust)
“
It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And yet, those evil spirits that were unleashed—be they fake entities from a stupid carnival ride, or cruel malevolencies from dark spiritual chasms of our universe—have stayed with me all these years
”
”
Tim Cummings (Orphans)
“
Let’s live suddenly without thinking.
Let’s live like the light that kills.
And let’s as silence,
because Whirl’s after all:
(after me) love, and after you.
I occasionally feel vague how
vague I don’t know tenuous Now -
spears and The Then - arrows making do
our mouths, something red, something tall.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
....my brain works like an etch-a-sketch; even the slightest movement causes it to go completely blank.
”
”
Quinn Cummings (Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life)
“
I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array of faces I could wear rather than dresses, I would know which face to put on today. As for the dresses, I haven't a clue.
”
”
Tim Cummings (Orphans)
“
if everything happens that can't be done
(and anything's righter
than books
could plan)
the stupidest teacher will almost guess
(with a run
skip
around we go yes)
there's nothing as something as one
one hasn't a why or because or although
(and buds know better
than books
don't grow)
one's anything old being everything new
(with a what
which
around we come who)
one's everyanything so
so world is a leaf so tree is a bough
(and birds sing sweeter
than books
tell how)
so here is away and so your is a my
(with a down
up
around again fly)
forever was never till now
now i love you and you love me
(and books are shutter
than books
can be)
and deep in the high that does nothing but fall
(with a shout
each
around we go all)
there's somebody calling who's we
we're anything brighter than even the sun
(we're everything greater
than books
might mean)
we're everanything more than believe
(with a spin
leap
alive we're alive)
we're wonderful one times one
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Your inner thighs like the petals of a newly opened lily
Long, smooth and sensually captivating
Drawing me into the center of the flower
”
”
Bill Weber (Choosing Me: Love Letters from a Poet, Volume 1)
“
the other guineahen
died of a broken heart and we came to New York.
I used to sit at a table,drawing wings
with a pencil that kept breaking and i kept
remembering how your mind looked when it slept
for several years,to wake up asking why.
So then you turned into a photograph
of somebody who’s trying not to laugh
at somebody who’s trying not to cry
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
...we're a mystery which will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before...
”
”
E.E. Cummings (100 Selected Poems)
“
Cred ca...dupa cum sunt atatea pareri,cate capete...tot asa si cate inimi,atatea feluri de dragoste
”
”
Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)
“
Only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses. Nobody, not even the rain has such small hands.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
yes is a pleasant country:
if's wintry
(my lovely)
let's open the year
both is the very weather
(not either)
my treasure,
when violets appear
love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one
(and april's where we're)
”
”
E.E. Cummings (сърцето ти нося (в сърцето си го нося))
“
I love you, and..." he grunts. "I hate you. And, I hate that I fuckin' love you.
”
”
Bink Cummings
“
My definition of ‘love’ is being willing to die for someone who you yourself want to kill. That, in my experience, is kind of the deal.
”
”
Whitney Cummings (I'm Fine...And Other Lies)
“
god's terrible face brighter than a spoon
collects the image of one fatal word;
so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)
resembles something that has not occurred:
i am a birdcage without any bird
a collar looking for a dog a kiss
without lips;a prayer lacking any knees
but something beats within my shirt to prove
he is undead who living noone is.
I have never loved you dear as now i love.
”
”
E.E. Cummings (100 Selected Poems)
“
I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all the roses. Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
I love long flights. The feeling of being completely unreachable is something I savor, and the limbolike state of being, having departed but not arrived, somehow allows me to catch up with myself, to regroup and check in.
”
”
Alan Cumming (Not My Father's Son)
“
Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway...and we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.
-James (from "Descendants of the Eminent")
”
”
Tim Cummings
“
Mă leg pe tine, pământule, că eu voi fi a lui Allan, și a nimănui altuia. Voi crește din el ca iarba din tine. Și cum aștepți tu ploaia, așa îi voi aștepta eu venirea, și cum îți sunt ție razele, așa va fi trupul lui mie. Mă leg în fața ta că unirea noastră va rodi, căci mi-e drag cu voia mea, și tot răul, dacă va fi, să nu cadă asupra lui, ci asupră-mi, căci eu l-am ales. Tu mă auzi, mamă pământ, tu nu mă minți, maica mea. Dacă mă simți aproape, cum te simt eu acum, și cu mâna și cu inelul, întărește-mă să-l iubesc totdeauna, bucurie necunoscută lui să-i aduc, viață de rod și de joc să-i dau. Să fie viața noastră ca bucuria ierburilor ce cresc din tine. Să fie îmbrățișarea noastră ca cea dintâi zi a monsoon-ului. Ploaie să fie sărutul nostru. Și cum tu niciodată nu obosești, maica mea, tot astfel să nu obosească inima mea în dragostea pentru Allan, pe care cerul l-a născut departe, și tu, maică, mi l-ai adus aproape.
”
”
Mircea Eliade (Maitreyi)
“
She’s beautiful to look at, she’s new, she’s clean, and perfectly cut. But then you get up and look closely and see that she’s not real. She’s a fake. She doesn't glimmer like a natural diamond or hold the beauty and unbreakable strength of a real diamond. She’s just a manufactured piece of glass. Not the real deal. And sooner or later, that pig headed owner is gonna realize that fake diamonds can never pass for the real ones, no matter how much you wish they would.
”
”
Bink Cummings (The Diary of Bink Cummings: Vol 2 (MC Chronicles, #2))
“
let’s live suddenly without thinking
under honest trees,
a stream
does.the brain of cleverly-crinkling
-water pursues the angry dream
of the shore. By midnight,
a moon
scratches the skin of the organised hills
an edged nothing begins to prune
let’s live like the light that kills
and let’s as silence,
because Whirl’s after all:
(after me)love,and after you.
I occasionally feel vague how
vague idon’t know tenuous Now-
spears and The Then-arrows making do
our mouths something red,something tall
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Some women want roses and diamonds, candlelit dinners and I love yous. Not me. I want to be choked and told I look pretty with your cum covering my face.
”
”
Shantel Tessier (Carnage (L.O.R.D.S., #5))
“
The question that surrounds lovemaking is, "Did you cum?" and the unasked question beneath that is, "Am I all right?
”
”
Sam Keen (Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man)
“
lady through whose profound and fragile lips
the sweet small clumsy feet of April came
into the ragged meadow of my soul.
”
”
E.E. Cummings (Collected Poems)
“
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE IN WHICH I AM UNFAZED BY THE MEN WHO DO NOT LOVE ME when the businessman shoulder checks me in the airport, i do not apologize. instead, i write him an elegy on the back of a receipt and tuck it in his hand as i pass through the first class cabin. like a bee, he will die after stinging me. i am twenty-four and have never cried. once, a boy told me he doesn’t “believe in labels” so i embroidered the word chauvinist on the back of his favorite coat. a boy said he liked my hair the other way so i shaved my head instead of my pussy. while the boy isn’t calling back, i learn carpentry, build a desk, write a book at the desk. i taught myself to cum from counting ceiling tiles. the boy says he prefers blondes and i steam clean his clothes with bleach. the boy says i am not marriage material and i put gravel in his pepper grinder. the boy says period sex is disgusting and i slaughter a goat in his living room. the boy does not ask if he can choke me, so i pretend to die while he’s doing it. my mother says this is not the meaning of unfazed. when the boy says i curse too much to be pretty and i tattoo “cunt” on my inner lip, my mother calls this “being very fazed.” but left over from the other universe are hours and hours of waiting for him to kiss me and here, they are just hours. here, they are a bike ride across long island in june. here, they are a novel read in one sitting. here, they are arguments about god or a full night’s sleep. here, i hand an hour to the woman crying outside of the bar. i leave one on my best friend’s front porch, send my mother two in the mail. i do not slice his tires. i do not burn the photos. i do not write the letter. i do not beg. i do not ask for forgiveness. i do not hold my breath while he finishes. the man tells me he does not love me, and he does not love me. the man tells me who he is, and i listen. i have so much beautiful time.
”
”
Olivia Gatwood (New American Best Friend)
“
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
-the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelid's flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Now that she’s practically mine, I want to shower her with everything. Love. Attention. Gifts. Cum.
”
”
K. Webster (Notice)
“
...he still knows how to love, and how to be soft, in a world full of hate.
”
”
Lindsay Cummings (The Murder Complex (The Murder Complex, #1))
“
I fear no fate for you are my fate, my sweet.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
I want to make love to you, Rhone. I want to fill your ass with my penis and fuck you until you love it just as much as I do. I want to suck your dick and eat your balls until your cum coats my tongue and throat. I want you to do the same to me. I want to come inside you, in your mouth, in your ass, on your chest, marking you as mine in a way you can feel even when I’m not by your side. That’s what I want. It’s what I’ve wanted ever since you told me I could have a different, better life and then took the time to care and to show me how to care about myself. I want everything you can give, and I want to offer you everything that I am.
”
”
Cameron Dane (Finding Home (Quinn Security, #1))
“
when god lets my body be
From each brave eye shall sprout a tree
fruit that dangles therefrom
the purpled world will dance upon
Between my lips which did sing
a rose shall beget the spring
that maidens whom passion wastes
will lay between their little breasts
My strong fingers beneath the snow
Into strenuous birds shall go
my love walking in the grass
their wings will touch with her face
and all the while shall my heart be
With the bulge and nuzzle of the sea
”
”
E.E. Cummings (100 Selected Poems)
“
Cum să fac să nu o iau în brațe
când o văd trecând prin univers?
îmi fac o listă:
de pus mereu în buzunar un trotuar de rezervă, când o văd
că se apropie de mine scot trotuarul și trec pe partea cealaltă
mă prefac neatent, întorc capul spre zid mă zidesc în el
trec prin zid
sau:
mă întorc brusc și o iau la fugă înapoi, toată lumea va înțelege,
(am uitat ceva esențial, undeva, cu zece douăzeci treizeci
de ani în urmă, fug înapoi spre copilărie)
sau, și mai bine, când o văd că se apropie de mine
îmi ridic brațele, le transform în aripi, descopăr brusc
că sunt capabil să zbor, la revedere, Domnișoară
nu mai sunt obligat să mor dacă nu vă iau în brațe
sau, și mai bine, nu mă mai nasc, nu mai scriu nimic
nici măcar acest poem nu mai există
nu, nu pot să-i fac asta, ea trăiește cu un poem pe zi
mai bine mă prefac în poem
se va parfuma cu mine, se va lipi de mine la micul dejun
mă va citi poate de mai multe ori…
”
”
Matei Vişniec (Negustorul de începuturi de roman)
“
What I hope you'll remember, Grace-is that all your life there will be people who have more than you-and people who have less. Grace hung her head. What's really important,'Miss Louise went on to say,'are the connections you have with the people you love. Your family, your friends, Grace-truly, those are the things that matter. Those are the things that will always matter the most.
”
”
Priscilla Cummings (Saving Grace)
“
I've always loved being gay. Sure, Kenya was not exactly Queer Nation but my sexuality gave me joy. I was young, not so dumb and full of cum! There was no place for me in heaven but I was content munching devil's pie here on earth.
”
”
Diriye Osman (Fairytales for Lost Children)
“
Her name was Bullwinkle. We called her that because she had a face like a moose. But Tommy, even though he could get any girl he wanted on the Sunset Strip, would not break up with her. He loved her and wanted to marry her, he kept telling us, because she could spray her cum across the room.
”
”
Vince Neil
“
a billion brains may coax undeath
from fancied fact and spaceful time--
no heart can leap, no soul can breathe
but by the sizeless truth of a dream
whose sleep is the sky and the earth and the sea
For love are in you am in i are in we
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Say that you love me. You don't have to mean it. You can lie. Just say it so I can pretend for a little while"
Fen to Malick - Weregild
”
”
Carole Cummings
“
We both lacked the same thing in our childhoods - the love of a father... We both sought to fill that lack in our adult lives with family and love, as everyone does, but also with thrills and sometimes periods of recklessness. Luckily, I have always come back from my recklessness. Tommy Darling did not.
”
”
Alan Cumming
“
in heavenly realms of hellas dwelt
two very different sons of zeus:
one, handsome strong and born to dare
--a fighter to his eyelashes--
the other,cunning ugly lame;
but as you'll shortly comprehend
a marvellous artificer
now Ugly was the husband of
(as happens every now and then
upon a merely human plane)
someone completely beautiful;
and Beautiful,who(truth to sing)
could never quite tell right from wrong,
took brother Fearless by the eyes
and did the deed of joy with him
then Cunning forged a web so subtle
air is comparatively crude;
an indestructible occult
supersnare of resistless metal:
and(stealing toward the blissful pair)
skilfully wafted over them-
selves this implacable unthing
next,our illustrious scientist
petitions the celestial host
to scrutinize his handiwork:
they(summoned by that savage yell
from shining realms of regions dark)
laugh long at Beautiful and Brave
--wildly who rage,vainly who strive;
and being finally released
flee one another like the pest
thus did immortal jealousy
quell divine generosity,
thus reason vanquished instinct and
matter became the slave of mind;
thus virtue triumphed over vice
and beauty bowed to ugliness
and logic thwarted life:and thus--
but look around you,friends and foes
my tragic tale concludes herewith:
soldier,beware of mrs smith
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Iubirea și moartea sunt vecine.
Au unul și același chip.
Nu ai cum să li te împotrivești.
Două persoane se întâlnesc.
Se-ndrăgostesc fulgerător.
Se iubesc.
Se iubesc și se doresc și, într-o zi, dragostea dispare tot atât de brusc pe cum a apărut.
Sau poate că, de la bun început, dragostea este imposibilă, dar și inevitabilă.
”
”
Mons Kallentoft (Midvinterblod)
“
Malick to Jacin: "There is no trade anymore, you're not nothing, you didn't kill Caidi, you're going to be the most beautiful-dangerous Incendiary the gods have ever seen, and I fucking love you. Deal with it.
”
”
Carole Cummings
“
Caidi to Jacin: "Do you know why I love you?"
Jacin: "No."
Caidi: "Because you love so big, even when you don't want to. Because you can't help it. And because you need it back, but you don't know how to take it.
”
”
Carole Cummings
“
These tits- I want to slide my cock between them and thrust over and over until your silky skin jerks me off and I come all over them. I’ll come so hard and so much that some gets on your face, coating your pouty lips and I’ll watch you lick it off. Lick my cum off your tits because every drop of it belongs in your body somehow. Your mouth, your pussy, your asshole. I want to drain my cock in every one of your holes.
”
”
Q.B. Tyler
“
You already made your point,” I say with a mouthful of fruit.
“Did I?”
“Oh, for the love of dick, yes. Now leave me alone.”
“Never. If you want, I’ll fuck you now.”
The gall. I wouldn’t fuck him now if my clit was on fire and needed to be doused with nub-saving cum. I roll my eyes at him.
“No thanks, we have a lifetime of fucking ahead of us,” I say mockingly.
He shrugs and starts to walk away as if it makes no difference to him one way or the other. He’s such a jackass sometimes. Before I can stop myself I throw my half-eaten banana at him and it hits him on the back of his neck.
He spins around, wipes his neck and looks down at the banana on the floor.
“Did you really just fruitally assault me?”
He thinks he’s so damned funny with his wordplay.
”
”
Ella Dominguez (The Art of Domination (The Art of D/s, #2))
“
It’s hard to explain how much that feeling of the bottom potentially falling out at any moment takes its toll. It makes you anxious, of course, and constant anxiety is impossible for the body to handle. So you develop a coping mechanism, and for us that meant shutting down. Everything we liked or wanted or felt joy in had to be hidden or suppressed. I’m sad to say that this method works. If you don’t give as much credence or value to whatever it is that you love, it hurts less when it is inevitably taken from you. I had to pretend I had no joy. It will come as a shock to people who know me now, but being able to express joy was something it took me a long time to be confident enough to do.
”
”
Alan Cumming (Not My Father's Son)
“
Îmi amintesc de mama în fiecare zi, așa cum i-am promis pe malul Oceanului. Încerc sa nu mint.
Ochii mamei erau o greșeală
Ochii mamei erau resturile unei mame frumoase
Ochii mamei plângeau înauntru
Ochii mamei erau dorința unei oarbe împlinită de soare
Ochii mamei erau lanuri de tulpini frânte
Ochii mamei erau poveștile mele nespuse
Ochii mamei erau geamurile unui submarin de smarald
Ochii mamei erau scoici crescute pe copaci
Ochii mamei erau cicatrice pe fața verii
Ochii mamei erau muguri în așteptare
”
”
Tatiana Țîbuleac (Vara în care mama a avut ochii verzi)
“
Asa-zisa „psihologie pentru mase” bate intr-una moneda pe „asumarea responsabilitatii”, dar nu sunt decat vorbe goale: este extraordinar de greu, ba chiar terifiant, sa accepti ideea ca tu si numai tu esti acela care iti construiesti viata, felul in care o traiesti. Ca urmare, problema in psihoterapie consta intotdeauna in a sti cum sa treci de la o apreciere in plan intelectual, care se dovedeste ineficace, a unui adevar despre tine insuti la un mod saul altul de a-l simti in plan emotional. Abia din clipa in care terapia mobilizeaza emotii profunde, incepe sa devina o forta redutabila in favoarea schimbarii.
”
”
Irvin D. Yalom (Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy)
“
may i feel, said he
i'll squeal, said she
just once, said he
it's fun, said she
may i touch, said he
how much, said she
a lot, said he
why not, said she
let's go, said he
not too far, said she
what's too far, said he
where you are, said she.
may i stay? said he
which way? said she
like this, said he
if you kiss, said she
may i move? said he
is it love? said she
if you're willing, said he
but you're killing, said she
but it's life, said he
but your wife, said she.
now. said he.
oww! said she.
tiptop, said he.
don't stop. said she.
oh no, said he
go slow, said she
cccome! said he
ummm.. said she)
you're divine! said he
you are Mine! said she.
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
Now put your hands on the countertop, and bend over. I’m going to shove you so full of cock you won’t even remember how to spell your name for a week,” he said in his deep voice.
“Oh my. Ok,” I said as I did what he asked. As I grabbed the edges of the countertop, I felt his foot kicking the insides of my shoes, spreading my legs farther apart.
“You long legged, sexy little bitch. I have to get your pussy down here where I can get to it,” he said, as he slapped the right side of my butt, hard. The slap startled me, and the sting felt like fire.
As soon as he stopped kicking my shoes and spreading my legs apart, I felt the head of his cock slide past my lips. His hands grabbed my waist, and he slid all the way inside of me. As soon as I felt his balls against my clit, I began to contract and felt as if I was going to cum. His cock slid out, and then back in again. He found a rhythm and began to fuck me slowly, his hips slapping lightly against my butt as he slid all the way into my wet pussy. As his hips slapped my ass, I could feel his balls against my clit. I couldn’t take it anymore. If he kept up this pace, I would explode.
“Fuck me Erik, fuck me. Fuck me harder. Fuck me,” I said loudly.
“Fuck me, Erik. Oh God. Fuck me.”
“Fuck me.”
“Harder.” I begged.
“Who owns you, baby girl? Who fucking owns you?” he almost screamed.
“Oh God, you do. You own me. You.”
“Don’t forget it, do you hear me?” he said in a loud, stern tone.
“Yes, I am yours. You own me,” I responded...I loved this.
In and out he forced himself, each time it felt as I was being stretched open for the first time. Not a tremendous pain, but each stroke felt like it was the first, the entry stroke. It was a new feeling to me, and it was more than I could take. I was going to explode.
“Please…Faster. Fuck me. Give me that cock. Give me that big fat….Oh my God. Give it to me.
”
”
Scott Hildreth (Baby Girl (Erik Ead Trilogy, #1))
“
When it got really bad, when nothing else got me through, I was thinking of you. How you tilt your head when you laugh; the way you eat your cereal really fast so that it doesn’t go soggy; how you squint your eyes and scrunch up your face into a grimace, every time anyone mentions eggs.” Hooch dropped his voice even more, until Matt had to lean closer to hear the whisper. “Your shit-eating grin when you wave your ass into my face, telling me to fuck you. The sound you make when you cum, going straight to my cock and blowing my mind. The smell of your sweat right after sex ..." Hooch paused, pulling in a breath. "And when I wasn't sure if I could make it through another hour, then I thought of your face that looks so damned young when you're asleep, and I remembered how you sometimes say my name, and how the sound of your voice makes me ache inside.”
Hooch fell silent and Matt stared at him. Wide-eyed, frozen in shock. Insides churning, a pain he hadn't known before, travelling from his heart throughout his body, and it felt so fucking good. Understanding with every fibre of his being what Hooch had said in too many words. More than he’d ever used before, and without those three simple ones that would have sufficed.
”
”
Aleksandr Voinov (Special Forces - Veterans (Special Forces, #3))
“
dont get me wrong oblivion
I never loved you kiddo
you that was always sticking around
spoiling me for everyone else
telling me how it would make
you nutty if I didnt let you
go the distance
and I gave you my breasts to feel
didnt I
and my mouth to kiss
O I was too good to you oblivion old kid thats all
and when I might have told you
to go ahead and croak yourselflike
you was always threatning you are
are going to do
I didnt
I said go on you inter-
est me
I let you hang around
and whimper
and Ive been getting mine
Listen
theres a fellow I love like I never love anyone else thats six
foot two tall with a face like any girl would die to kiss and a skin
like a little kittens
thats asked me to go to Murrays tonight with him and see the cab-
aret and dance you know
well
if he asks me to take another Im going to and if he asks me to take
another after that Im going to do that and if he puts me into a taxi
and tells the driver to take her easy and steer for the morning Im
going to let him and if he starts in right away putting it to me in
the cab
Im not going to whisper
Oblivion
do you get me
not that Im tired of automats and Childss and handling out ribbon to
old ladies that aint got three teeth and being followed home by pimps
and stewed guys and sleeping lonely in a whitewashed room three thou-
sand below Zero oh no
I could stand that
but its that Im O Gawd how tired
of seeing the white face of you and
feeling the old hands of you and
being teased and jollied about you
and being prayed and implored and
bribed and threatened
to give you my beautiful white body
kiddo
thats why
”
”
E.E. Cummings
“
E L James, Party Games
you’re looking kind of smug
inserting that god damn anal plug
giving me your kinky love
after writing Fifty Shades
you’re acting like some kind of renegade
giving me your kinky love
sit me on a dildo and spin me right around
chain me up and hang me upside down
giving me your kinky love
god damn you E L James
making me into some kind of party game
giving me your kinky love
put me in a dream
and wheel in the Fucking Machine
god damn you E L James
spank a hand on my bum
see how much I can cum
god damn you E L James
stand me up and sit me down
lay me out and roll me about
god damn you E L James
BDSM
electro impulses up my brainstem
god damn you E L James
cast me in a submissive role-play
with my genitals on display
god damn you E L James
suspend me high in the air
slap me around like I don’t care
god damn you E L James
take that whip off the shelf
make me forget myself
god damn you E L James
Why are you wearing oven mittens?
branding iron your name written
inner goddess don’t keep in hidden
god damn you E L James
holy crap
my mind has snapped
to forget one thing that I have heard
I’m never going to use the safe-word
god damn you E L James
By R.M.Romarney
”
”
R.M. Romarney
“
Îmi amintesc de nenumărate relații de prietenie și legături profesionale care s-au încheiat sau au expirat deoarece de grija și atenția celorlalți (prieteni sau colegi) beneficiam doar atâta vreme cât îmi asumam rolul de băiat cuminte. Imediat ce deveneam puțin mai autentic, toate aceste privilegii se evaporau, fiind acuzat de lipsă de loialitate și nesimțire. Asemenea relații nu au cum să supraviețuiască alături de omul care vrea să-și cultive autenticitatea și curajul, deoarece sunt construite doar pe falsitate și se bazează pe piloanele firave ale dăruirii condiționate. Te apreciez și valorizez pentru că am nevoie de tine, iar dacă nu-mi mai îndeplinești nevoile secrete ești rău, viclean și nerecunoscător. Mi-a fost tare greu să scriu povestea de final a acestor relații, însă am ajuns la concluzia că nu am altă soluție: renunț la mine sau la celălalt. Dar, din fericire, pe atunci deja știam ca sunt cea mai importantă persoană din viața mea.
”
”
Gáspár György (Copilul invizibil)
“
Te aștept aici jos în vreme ce albastra răbdare a valurilor scrie cu gesturi de algă numele tău pe plajă iar pe mine mă fixează, nemișcat, un chip de acuarelă, de undeva dintr-un geam de la etajul al doilea, atât de real încât fără îndoială că niciodată n-a existat un chip mai uimit, poate doar cel al uimirii mele când bat la ușa casei unde trăiesc și nimeni nu-mi răspunde sau nu vine să mă cuprindă pe după umeri ca o vestă împrumutată, te aștept cu licărirea țigării aprinse între buze ca să mă poți recunoaște-n întunecimea orei două din după-amiaza prea orbitoare, te-aștept smucit de o febră pe care nu o am și cu părul vâlvoi într-un vânt care nu există, iar câinele începe să se îndepărteze dezamăgit cum se îndepărtează toate de corpul meu, chiar și umbra încolăcită de rușine în jurul pantofilor mei, iar atunci când umbrele încep să se rușineze de noi e mai bine să nu insistăm, mai bine să ne închidem în baie ca să privim lung în oglindă chipul pe care nu-l mai avem, pe care niciodată nu-l vom mai avea, te aștept tremurând așa cum în ploaie numai un îndrăgostit dintre cei mai urâți, ținând în mână un buchet de crizanteme tomnatice, își așteaptă iubita la fel de urâtă care l-a și uitat, dar care a rămas cu nasul lipit de perdele privind cum trece încet duminica, te aștept, dragă fată, iar în acea clipă acostează lângă trotuar o mașină și de pe bancheta din spate, singur, surâsul tău mă descoperă iar eu vin în întâmpinarea ta, temător, tremurând din genunchi, ca să mergem apoi să-ți explic cum e cu girafele de la Grădina zoologică fără să mai iau în seamă că mă asurzește gălăgia din megafoane, la fel de zgomotoasă cât e tăcerea iubirii ce ți-o port.
”
”
António Lobo Antunes (Livro de Crónicas (Portuguese Edition))