ALTTheodore Roethke, from "What Can I Tell My Bones", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]
Jack Gilbert, from “House on the California Mountain”, Collected Poems
[Text ID: “The pear tree is dead
our garden full of winter
only silence grows”]
ALTAudre Lorde, "From The House of YemanjΓ‘", The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde [transcript in ALT]
βWhat he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.β
βΒ Hanya Yanagihara,Β A Little Life
“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.”
— Alain de Botton, “On Love: A Novel”
