“People say I love you all the time - when they say, ‘take an umbrella, it’s raining,’ or ‘hurry back,’ or even ‘watch out, you’ll break your neck.’ There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear.”
— John Patrick
“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”
— Maya Angelou
![A photographed page from a book, on which the poem "Come. And Be My Baby" by Maya Angelou is printed. It reads: The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fast And folks is smoking anything thatβll burn Some people wrap their lies around a cocktail glass And you sit wondering where youβre going to turn I got it. Come. And be my baby. Some prophets say the world is gonna end tomorrow But others say weβve got a week or two The paper is full of every kind of blooming horror And you sit wondering What youβre gonna do. I got it. Come. And be my baby. [End I.D.]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/e868f693f4a2f7369011f195ff61cc2b/ccc742dbcd04724f-f5/s640x960/2eeaa310f8cfb2ef3b03a40185f2f46df672f0cd.png)
![A screenshot of the poem "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver. If you'd like to hear it read by the author, visit the link "Wild Geese" in body of post below. Otherwise, it reads: You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and excitingβ over and over announcing your place in the family of things. [End Image Description.]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/44c27ed064806fe8dfeb6d22927c99f4/ccc742dbcd04724f-78/s1280x1920/ce4862dcfa59b54b8f0c69a4bde114aec5fa5324.png)
Luis Ricardo Falero (1851 β 1896)
- Faust's Vision
- The Human Soul
- Twin Stars
- The Lily Fairy
- Le Vin Ginguet
- The Planet Venus
