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  • #1
    Sanober  Khan
    “I keep my kindness in my eyes
    Gently folded around my iris
    Like a velvety, brown blanket
    That warms my vision

    I keep my shyness in my hair
    Tucked away into a ponytail
    Looking for a chance to escape
    On a few loose strands in the air

    I keep my anger on my lips
    Just waiting to unleash into the world
    But trust me; it’s never in my heart
    It evaporates into words

    I keep my dignity upon my chin
    Like a torch held up high
    For those who have betrayed me
    Radiating a silent, strong message

    I keep my gratitude in my smile
    A glistening waterfall in the sun
    Gently splashing at that person
    Who made me happy for some reason

    I keep my sensitivity in my hands
    Reaching out for your wet cheek
    Holding you, with all the love
    The love I want to share, and feel

    I keep my passion in my writing
    My words breathing like fire
    Screeching against an endless road
    As I continue to be inspired

    I keep my simplicity in my soul
    Spread over me like a clear sky
    Reflecting all that I am
    And all that’s ever passed me by

    And I hope you will look
    Beyond my ordinary face
    My simple, tied hair
    My ordinary tastes
    And I hope you will see me
    From everyone...apart
    As I keep my beauty
    in my heart.”
    Sanober Khan

  • #2
    Sanober  Khan
    “this life
    has been
    a landscape
    of pain

    and still,
    flowers
    bloom in it.”
    Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

  • #3
    Ocean Vuong
    “You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  • #4
    George Eliot
    “We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
    George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

  • #5
    T.S. Eliot
    “I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #6
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #7
    Maya Angelou
    “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #8
    W.S. Merwin
    “Separation

    Your absence has gone through me
    Like thread through a needle.
    Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
    W.S. Merwin

  • #9
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..”
    H.P. Lovecraft

  • #10
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I have seen the dark universe yawning
    Where the black planets roll without aim,
    Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
    Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.”
    H. P. Lovecraft, Nemesis

  • #11
    Ocean Vuong
    “Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”
    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  • #12
    Ocean Vuong
    “Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  • #13
    Franz Kafka
    “I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
    Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka's The Castle

  • #14
    Virginia Woolf
    “Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #15
    Virginia Woolf
    “I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #16
    Richard Siken
    “I wanted to explain myself to myself in an understandable way. I gave shape to my fears and made excuses. I varied my velocities, watched myselves sleep. Something's not right about what I'm doing but I'm still doing it-- living in the worst parts, ruining myself. My inner life is a sheet of black glass. If I fell through the floor I would keep falling.
    The enormity of my desire disgusts me.”
    Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Richard Siken
    “You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”
    richard siken

  • #19
    Richard Siken
    “Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
    These, our bodies, possessed by light.
    Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
    Richard Siken, Crush

  • #20
    Czesław Miłosz
    “Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
    Czeslaw Milosz

  • #21
    Sylvia Plath
    “I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #22
    Erin Morgenstern
    “It is easier to be in love in a room with closed doors. To have the whole world in one room. One person. The universe condensed and intensified and burning, bright and alive and electric.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

  • #23
    Erin Morgenstern
    “A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

  • #24
    Erin Morgenstern
    “Everyone is a part of a story, what they want is to be part of something worth recording”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

  • #25
    “I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered
    if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”
    Annelyse Gelman

  • #26
    Amy Lowell
    “My eyes ache with the weight of unshed tears. You are my home, do you not understand?”
    Amy Lowell, The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell

  • #27
    “i don't pay attention to the
    world ending.
    it has ended for me
    many times
    and began again in the morning.”
    Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

  • #28
    Anne Carson
    “To feel anything
    deranges you. To be seen
    feeling anything strips you
    naked. In the grip of it
    pleasure or pain doesn’t
    matter. You think what
    will they do what new
    power will they acquire if
    they see me naked like
    this.
    If they see you
    feeling. You have no idea
    what. It’s not about them.
    To be seen is the penalty.”
    Anne Carson, Red Doc>

  • #29
    Ocean Vuong
    “They will tell you that to be political is to be merely angry, and therefore artless, depthless, "raw," and empty. They will speak of Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. They will tell you that great writing "breaks free" from the political, thereby "transcending" the barriers of difference, uniting people toward universal truths. They'll say this is achieved through craft above all. Let's see how it's made, they'll say- as if how something is assembled is alien to the impulse that created it. As if the first chair was hammered into existence without considering the human form.”
    Ocean Vuong

  • #30
    Kamand Kojouri
    “My love,
    you are driving the entire world mad.
    The nightingales are committing suicide
    one by one out of jealousy of your voice.
    The roses took one glance at your beauty
    and folded themselves from shame.
    The trees now only whisper your name
    and the sky hasn’t stopped crying since you looked up.
    Have pity on us, my love.
    We have already broken all the mirrors and glass
    out of fear that you will forget us
    and fall in love with yourself
    once you see what we all
    cannot stop seeing.”
    Kamand Kojouri



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