January 2012
“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the...
Edna St Vincent Millay
“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I...”
– Edna St Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year’s bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide! There are a hundred places where I...
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent. Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely Went to their deaths more proud than this one went. Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping I will confess; but that’s permitted me; Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free. If I had loved you less or...
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself...”
– ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
“If you don’t want these arms to hold you
If you don’t want these lips to kiss...”
– Tom Waits
December 2011
I See A Darkness Bonnie Prince Billy
Well,...
IF WE ADMIT THAT HUMAN LIFE CAN BE RULED BY...
- Tolstoy
November 2011
The Gods envy us. They envy us because we’re...
“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”
– Pablo Neruda
If You Forget Me
I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. Well, now, if little by little...
I do not love you except because I love you.
I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire. I love you only because it’s you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly. Maybe January light will consume My heart with its cruel...
