Some — the luckiest — 

          arrived at, then clung to, that point in love where

to be understood entirely stops being the main thing,

or a thing at all, even.

- Carl Phillips

When I think of desire,

it is in the same way that I do

God: as parable, any steep

and blue water, things that are always   

there, they only wait

to be sounded.

- Carl Phillips

Less the rescue.

More, always, the ache   

toward it.

- Carl Phillips

They said it would hurt, and it does.

- Carl Phillips

courage mattering so much less than not spooking easily

- carl phillips

And yet so much,

still, to wish for. To have loved

differently, less deeply, more

reliably. I call that hope,

not regret. 

- Carl Phillips

Is it okay to be human, and fall away

from oblation and memory, if we forget,

and can't sometimes help it and sometimes

it is all that we want?

- Carl Phillips

But at the end, be insolent;

Be absurd—strike the thing short off;

Be mad—only do not let talk

Wear the bloom from silence.

- Louise Bogan

the mind splitting into two

- cortney lamar charleston

The fools nearly killed me trying to make me one of them

- Cortney Lamar Charleston

RUE

Your blood doesn't even boil?

MADDY

No.

RUE

How?

MADDY

Equanimity.

Euphoria, S03E05

I thought we never could have touched.

- Allen Grossman

But my essence consists wholly in being

a thinking thing.

- Allen Grossman

I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul.

- Walt Whitman

It is not accidental to the mind

to be united to the body. Yet how

prone to errors my mind is.

- Allen Grossman