love archival 📜

Do not be absent for too long and ask about how I am, details die with time and stories change. — Mahmoud Darwish

Once a first grader asked me how long a poem had to be and when I said it could be just one word he wrote a poem that was just...

Do you know what happens when you hurt people? When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a...

If you want me to leave you alone, I will, but sometimes, sometimes you meet somebody and you know that whatever you did before, whatever your life was before, it...

I've gotten so goodabout not flinching at the sound of your namethat people don't know I'd still throw myselfmouth-open into the oceanfor the chance to drown somewhereyou might see it....

You need only to put down the grudge you are holding so you can pick up the phone and say, how many days did we need each other at the...

Like love, I said, being understood creates the fear that you will never be understood again. — rachel cusk

In the second chamberof my fourth heartdown to the left of the third valveis the room I keep for youfor me to think of you. — Lisa Olstein

you know that Ada Limon poem where she's like "i can't help it i love the way men love"? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker...

I smiled at you because I thought that youWere someone else; you smiled back; and there grewBetween two strangers in a librarySomething that seemed like love; but you loved me(If...

On the train we swapped seats,you wanted the window andI wanted to look at you. — Mahmoud Darwish

Do you know what I want of life?That I can be with you, you, all of you,and if life repeated a thousand times,still you, you, and again, you. — Forugh Farrokhzad