“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going thro...”
“I am one of those people who doesn’t know what she looks like. My reflection scares me sometimes, I imagine my face completely differe...”
“God, forgive me. I believe a lot of lies from a lot of good liars, namely me.”
“You have got to understand that one day I will be so empty that not even an explanation for why will be able to fill me.”
“when we were younger we read books on how to talk to ghosts but now that we are older, all we have to do is look into each other’s ...”
“I don’t care what the scale says, my body is varying weights. Without you, my hands are light as feathers and my heart is heavy as lea...”
“I promise to love you: at 6 am when you’re waking to go to work, to school, or whatever road life takes you on; and when you didnR...”
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
If the boy who draws
let’s you look over his shoulder.
If the poet
smiles
and shows you her words.
If the girl who sings for the shower only,
hums a song
in front of you.
Know that you’re no longer a person
but the air
and dust
that fills their lungs.
When the world perishes,
and all things ceas...
“I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.”
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
“Girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out.”