Louise Glück, from “Mutable Earth”, Poems 1962-2012
“The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear.”— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (via larmoyante)
“I swear your love would raise me out of my grave, in my flesh and blood, like Lazarus; hungry for this, and this, and this, your living kiss.”— Rapture; ‘If I Was Dead’ by Carol Ann Duffy
“When I talk to you I am happy. Because you listen, and my words find a home.”— Edmond Jabès (via quotemadness)
we all talk about the intimacy of eye contact but do you ever think about the intimacy of looking at someone’s eyes while they’re looking at something else—either because they’re distracted or they’re deliberately allowing you to have this moment to yourself or they know that it’ll be too much to look back at you directly—and if so does it ever just make you go full crazy
“two thoughts, equally as terrifying: WHAT IF I SEE YOU AGAIN? WHAT IF I DON’T?”— Untitled, Margaret Schnabel