He was looking at a beauty that was entirely self-contained, 

a beauty that required no justification outside of its own existence.

- Yukio Mishima

They say orphans make the best lovers.

Because they have no names to save

or lose. They just have the dark

and the open hands.

- Ocean Vuong

The map of your body is a map of my own home, a country 

I have memorized by heart, where every hill 

and valley is familiar and beloved.

- Maggie Nelson

We are not going to be invisible anymore. 

We are going to be here,

and we are going to be loud,

and we are going to be loved.

- Essex Hemphill

I didn't look like a woman anymore, but I didn't feel like a man either. 

I felt like a traveler who had crossed a border into a country 

where no one spoke my language.

- Leslie Feinberg 

I speak here as a black lesbian feminist, lesbian because I love women, 

feminist because I am part of a movement to change the status of women, 

and black because that is my history.

- Audre Lorde

And the Glass Slider was moving through the dark,

and I was thinking of you,

and how the world is a different shape

because we are both in it.

- Frank O'Hara

I want to cry my grief and tell you why,

so that you will love me and weep for me 

in a night of nightingales and daggers.

- Federico García Lorca

She was a person who could only be loved by those who were themselves complex

- Virginia Woolf

The affection of a mature intellect for a budding mind

it is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. 

It dictates and pervades great works of art...

- Oscar Wilde

To be with you this morning is a holy thing

beyond the power of a church to give, or a priest to tell.

- Emily Dickinson

We two boys together clinging,

One the other never leaving,

Up and down the roads going, 

North and South excursions making.

- Walt Whitman

That you are a woman is no obstacle

to my loving you; for the soul lacks gender,

and the physical is far from the spirit.

- Juana Inés de la Cruz

I am more dear to myself than I am used to be;

more than my usual self, my heart I nourish,

since you have held its core within your hand.

- Michelangelo Buonarroti

O loveliest boy that ever ran

Upon the earth since time began!

The sun, the full moon, and the stars

Are all your bright familiars...

- Abu Nuwas