• antony & cleopatra by william shakespeare
    • i have immortal longings in me
    • i am fire and air; my other elements i give to baser life
    • i will praise any man that will praise me
    • now from head to foot, i am marble-constant
  • much ado about nothing by william shakespeare
    • let me be that i am and seek not to alter me
    • there was a star danced, and under that was i born
  • wuthering heights by emily bronte
    • he's more myself than i am. whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
    • he's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than i am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being
    • she burned too bright for this world
    • if you ever looked at me once with what i know is in you, i would be your slave
    • i have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat
    • it was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn
    • as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire
    • how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling
  • circe/mud poems by margaret atwood
    • come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. i said I am a desert island. it was not what he had in mind
  • letters to vera by vladimir nabokov
    • yes, i need you, my fairytale
    • see you soon my strange joy, my tender night
    • i am ready to give you all of my blood, if i had to, it’s hard to explain but that’s how it is / here, i’ll tell you — with my love i could have filled ten centuries of fire, songs, and valor, ten whole centuries, enormous and winged, — full of knights riding up blazing hills and legends about giants and fierce troys and orange sails and pirates and poets
    • you are made entirely of tiny arrow-like movements – i love every one of them
  • macbeth by william shakespeare
    • stars hide your fires!
  • manic street preachers
    • from despair to where
  • this is a little like hell, almost romantic
  • you can hold me down, but i'm not to hold
  • let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together
nov 15 2015 ∞
oct 29 2016 +