April 20th, 1935 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

favorite love poems

The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel

A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glück

The Kiss by Sara Teasdale

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare

Our Story by William Stafford

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats

Why do I love You, Sir? by Emily Dickinson

Her Voice by Oscar Wilde

Love at First Sight by Wisława Szymborska

Echo by Christina Rossetti

Castile by Louise Glück

Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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“Let go of the idea of winning or losing. In the game of life, the most important thing is just showing up and doing your best.”

— Unknown

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devour me (via)

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She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oak-wood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast inter-laced intricacy of her body.

D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

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current reads:

• Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates

• Sappho of Lesbos by Alexander Trocchi

• The Triumph of Death by Gabriele D'Annunzio

• The Dead City by Gabriele D'Annunzio

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