Vicente Aleixandre, ed. by Lewis Hyde, from A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems; “The Explosion”
[Text ID: “I devoted myself to one endless afternoon. / I’ve loved you every moment of that afternoon.”]
[ID: 3 green leaves with text stamped on them. They say “It’s so hot and the sky’s so blue”, “I want people to know me”, “but it’s so hard to tell them”. ]
“my darling,
you will never be unloved by me
you are too well tangled in my soul”— Atticus
e.e. cummings, “in the rain” (from Tulips), Complete Poems: 1904-1962
[Text ID: “a single star is
uttered,and ithink
of you”]
Fall in love with someone who is both your safe place and your biggest adventure.
I’ll choose her thunder over anyone else’s sunshine.
Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse
Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963
hey (with the intention of kissing in the rain)
- Mahmoud Darwish from ’Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)
— Bob Dylan from When the Deal Goes Down on Modern Times (2006)
ALT
Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]
i love you air dried hair i love you no makeup i love you comfortable clothes made out of soft fabrics i love you short nails
