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The Complete Poetry and Selected Criticism, by Edgar Allan Poe (Signet, 1968).From a charity shop in Nottingham.
everythingsecondhand: The Complete Poetry and Selected Criticism, by Edgar Allan Poe (Signet, 1968). From a charity shop in Nottingham.
Porny Haikus, a selection (TomTom and Bane/Blake)
“My heart is warm with the friends I make,And better friends I’ll not be knowing,Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take,No matter where it’s going.” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry
hvorenn: “You would rather have gone on feeling nothing, emptiness and silence; the stagnant peace of the deepest sea, which is easier than the noise and flesh of the surface.” — Margaret Atwood, from Eurydice in “Selected Poems II: 1976-1986″
wethinkwedream: “my excessive heart / finds everything too small,” — Miguel Hernández, from Selected Poems; “Like the Bull,”
memoryslandscape: “The loneliness comes and goes, but the blue holds, / Permeating the early leaves that flutter in the sunlight” — John Koethe, from “The Late Wisconsin Spring,” North Point North: New and Selected Poems (Harper Perennial,
oiseauperdu: “Mother of otherness Eat me.” — Sylvia Plath, from Selected Poems; “Who,”
nemophilies: “Flesh is a constant haunting.” — Airea D. Matthews, from “Select passages from The holy writ of us,” in Simulacra
adrasteiax: “Happiness? Even the scent is cold.” — Marina Tsvetaeva, from Bus in “Bride Of Ice: New Selected Poems” [translated by Elaine Feinstein]
adrasteiax:Margaret Atwood, from Siren Song in “Selected Poems I: 1965-1975″
barcarole:Ghalib, from Mirza Ghalib: Selected Lyrics and Letters (trans. K.C. Kanda)
violentwavesofemotion: Anna Akhmatova, from The Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova; “My Heart,”
violentwavesofemotion: Marianne Moore, from The Selected Poems of Marianne Moore: “In The Public Garden,”
soracities: Adonis, ‘Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea’ (fragments), Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa) [Text ID: Ah, how deep love is in its hatredAh, how deep hatred is in its love.”]
weltenwellen: Anna Akhmatova, from “There are Four of Us“, Selected Poems
violentwavesofemotion: “I took a walk alone late at night.” — Takuboku Ishikawa, tr. by Tamae K. Prindle, from The Selected Poems; “Nervously,”
arckhaic: “I want to be engulfed in you,” — Yves Bonnefoy, tr. by Anthony Rudolf, from The Selected Poems; “The Salamander,” (via britneyshakespearean)
violentwavesofemotion: Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Langston Hughes, from Selected Poems; “Little White Garments,”
dearophelia: “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968 (via exoticwild)
lifeinpoetry: they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine — Lucille Clifton, “why some people be mad at me sometimes,” Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000
weltenwellen: Adonis, from “Thunderbolt”, Selected Poems
violentwavesofemotion: Alexander Blok, from The Selected Poems of Alexander Blok; “There’s A Game,”
soracities: Adonis, ‘Body’, Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa)[Text ID: “Rot is also a heartrot is also childhoodrot is also what love is.”]
sirenoirs: “You leaned over me as the great willow of melancholy over the deep waters of silence;” — Delmira Agustini, from Selected Poetry: Poetics of Eros; Vision. (via xshayarsha)
violentwavesofemotion: Gertrud Kolmar, from Dark Soliloquy: The Selected Poems; “The Sacrifice,”
cruellheaven: “(My dear friend I don’t complain. It’s just another scar.)” — Marina Tsvetaeva, from Poem Of The End in “Bride Of Ice: New Selected Poems” [translated by Elaine Feinstein] (via adrasteiax)
of-spaceandstars: “Inside my skin, / loving you, I am this space / my body believes in.” — — Yusef Komunyakaa, from “Unnatural State of the Unicorn,” Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (via lifeinpoetry)
weltenwellen: Velimir Khlebnikov, Collected Works, Vol. 3: Selected Poems, tr. by Paul Schmidt
violentwavesofemotion: “…a dark angel whispering to me to be easy on myself.” — Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems: 1976 - 1986; “Half-Hanged Mary,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
feral-ballad: Marina Tsvetaeva, tr. by Elaine Feinstein, from Marina Tsvetaeva: Selected Poems, “No one has taken anything away”
luthienne:adonis, selected poems; “ii. the story of a day” (tr. khaled mattawa) / alejandra pizarnik, extracting the stone of madness; “algunos textos de sombra” (tr. yvette siegert) / hélène cixous, hyperdream (tr. beverly bie brahic)
luthienne:Adonis, from Selected Poems; “A Piece of Bahlul’s Sun” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)
aridante:“I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky.” — The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘Lament’ tr. Stephen Mitchell
oxytekie:love-carrying windhenry dumas - knees of a natural man: the selected poetry of henry dumas // david ligare // doris dana in a letter to gabriela mistral, translated by velma garcía-gorena
metamorphesque: — Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems [text ID: I confess I meant to grow/ wings and lose my mind/ I confess that I’ve/ forgotten what for/ Why wings and a lost mind]
seaymphea: “Early evening… Cemetery… And the wind as sharp as / bone…” — Vladimír Holan, from Selected Poetry; “Horoscope”
seaymph: “Teeth of flowers, hair of dew, hands of herbs, you,” — Alfonsina Storni, tr. by Muna Lee, from Selected Poems; “I Am Going To Sleep,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
From Night of the Iguana (1964), directed by John Huston, written by Tennessee Williams. Observe the sky begin to blanch without a cry, without a prayer, with no betrayal of despair. Oh, courage! Could you not as well select a second place to dwell?Not
violentwavesofemotion: Guillaume Apollinaire, tr. by Anne Hyde Greet, from Calligrams; “In The Dugout,”
violentwavesofemotion:Arthur Rimbaud, tr. by William Jay Smith, from Collected Translations; “The Strolling Player,”
violentwavesofemotion:Sappho, tr. by Willis Barnstone, from Greek Lyric Poetry; “A Wedding,”
violentwavesofemotion:Raisa Blokh, tr. by Nina Kossman, from 20th Century Russian Poetry; “Random Talk,”
michaelbogild:“I’m kissing you now – across The gap of a thousand years.” — Marina Tsvetaeva, 12 February 1916, from My Poems: Selected Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva (via paper-fairy)
mournfulroses: Yehuda Amichai, from The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai; “And as far as Abu Ghosh,”
weltenwellen: “I fear, too soon, I am a shadow’s shade, a sleepwalker, perhaps, Of two dark moons.” — Marina Tsvetaeva, My Poems: Selected Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, July 13, 1914
89words:“Loved his interior world, his interior wilderness, that primal forest inside him, where among decayed treetrunks his heart stood, light-green. Loved.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, from “The Third Elegy,” Duino Elegies, The Selected Poetry
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