“All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world.”— — Sylvia Plath, from “Female Author,” The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God; from ‘Du wirst nur mit der Tat erfaßt’, tr. Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy
“I am tired of carrying you in my thoughts, in every kiss that I donate to people who will never be you, in poetry I write for others but wish for only you to read.”