Daiana Damacus

“We have not long to love.
Light does not stay.
The tender things are those
we fold away.
Coarse fabrics are the ones
for common wear.
In silence I have watched you
comb your hair.
Intimate the silence,
dim and warm.
I could but did not, reach
to touch your arm.
I could, but do not, break
that which is still.
(Almost the faintest whisper
would be shrill.)
So moments pass as though
they wished to stay.
We have not long to love.
A night. A day....”
― Tennessee Williams, The Collected Poems

“Stop looking at it as an impossible thing and start looking at it as a thing that must be done.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks

“Some things are beautiful, but they are beautiful in the way of the sun. If you fly too close, they will melt your wings and send you plummeting into the sea.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Soul is a River

“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
― Anna Akhmatova