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Jeanette Winterson, from The PowerBook

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mary oliver, upstream

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How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?

Doc Luben 

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Alice Notley

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in Letters, Summer 1926

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“I loved you before I was born. It doesn’t make sense, I know. I saw your eyes before I had eyes to see. And I’ve lived longing for your every look ever since. That longing entered time as this body. And the longing grew as this body waxed. And the longing grows as this body wanes. That longing will outlive this body. I loved you before I was born. It makes no sense, I know. Long before eternity, I caught a glimpse of your neck and shoulders, your ankles and toes. And I’ve been lonely for you from that instant. That loneliness appeared on earth as this body. And my share of time has been nothing but your name outrunning my ever saying it clearly. Your face fleeing my ever kissing it firmly once on the mouth. In longing, I am most myself, rapt, my lamp mortal, my light hidden and singing. I give you my blank heart. Please write on it what you wish.”

— Li-Young Lee, from The Undressing: Poems; “I loved you before I was born”

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Wale Ayinla, from “Portrait of a Boy with Grief”

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someone’s hoping you’re free to hang out. hoping you drive home safe. hoping they can hug you tight the next time they see you. hoping you’re out there doing well. hoping you’ll text them back. hoping you’re okay.

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Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters

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Mary Oliver, from "The Gift", Felicity

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being alive is like: you want to go home. you don't know where home is. you want to go home. you don't know where home is. you want to go home. you haven't known for a long time. you want to go home but you don't know where you'd go. you want to go home you want to go home you want to go home

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Zhu Xiang, from a poem titled "Reply to a Dream," featured in Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology

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because I am myself when with you.

July 16th, 1962 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977

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Nikki Giovanni, from “Mirrors”

[Text ID: … but It Cannot Be A Mistake to have cared … It Cannot Be An Error to have tried … It Cannot Be Incorrect to have loved]