Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Book 1 “Inferno,” Canto 5 [tr. James (2013)]

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

Henri Cole, from a poem titled "Twilight," featured in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker

Anthem, Leonard Cohen

You wanna come over and just go to sleep?

bookseller

— natalie díaz, from “american arithmetic”, postcolonial love poem (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

a deep connection can’t be formed without emotional safety. without safety, there’s no trust. without trust, there’s no vulnerability. without vulnerability, there’s no intimacy + without intimacy, there’s no true connection.

2 April, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov