Musings On Touch

philippa iksiraq, "flowers," 1990, felt, embroidery floss and duffle

“Curse her! May she be everlastingly accursed!”  An illustration from She by Henry Rider Haggard.

on the self

mary oliver a thousand mornings \\ marc chagall blue lovers (1914) \\ jean-paul sartre nausea

kofi

a list of poems that erode my heart, bit by bit.

a love note by adeeba shahid talukder

the gardener 85 by rabindranath tagore

from blossoms by li-young lee

the snow fairy by claude mckay

last night by faiz ahmed faiz (i don't have a reliable translation for this )

you can't have it all by barbara ras

mountain dew commercial disguised as a love song by matthew olzmann

a book said dream and i do by barbara ras

i love you to the moon & by chen chen

14 love songs by elizabeth jacobson

lover by ada limón

night walk by franz wright

the persimmon tree by lee jae-mu

lullaby by w. h. auden

eating together by li-young lee

april moon by cathy song

a dawn letter by kwak je-mu

on love by kahil gibran

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew

1. Jack Gilbert / 2. “The Fall of Icarus” by Merry-Joseph Blondel / 3. Lines attributed to Irish poet Oscar Wilde / 4. “The Fall of Icarus” by René Milot / 5. Charles Baudelaire / 6. “The Lament for Icarus” by Herbert James Draper / 7. Ilya Kaminsky / 8. “Icarus on the Rocks” by Vlaho Bukovac / 9. Nina Mouawad

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“I have a list in my head of all the feelings I still want to feel before I die. And you have ticked so many things off that list.”

— Iain Thomas (via quotemadness)

“Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling”

—Oscar Wilde