“Today I was unable to visit Lotte because I had an engagement I could not cancel. What could I do? I sent my servant to her house, so that I would at least have someone about me who had been near her today.” -J.W. Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading

“…you don’t want to know more about this. And then: you don’t know anything unless you do.” -Mary Oliver #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #maryoliver

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

“That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive.” -Lord Byron #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #byron

“Put a tight seal on the heart, that leaky bucket. The heart saved against speaking.” -Tess Gallagher #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #tessgallagher

Egon Schiele. Self-portrait with hands on chest. 1910

“Try and vary your methods as you will your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed in your actions.” -Agatha Christie, “The A.B.C. Murders”

My heart breaks for the children who get no justice in this world.

L. Birge Harrison (American, 1854–1929). Tunnel of Trees in Winter (oil on canvas).

“Orr was where he had been for months—alone: knowing he was insane and knowing he was not insane, simultaneously and intensely. It was enough to drive him insane.” -Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Lathe of Heaven” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #scifi #leguin #ursulakleguin

-Son of Frankenstein, dir. Rowland V. Lee (1939) #poetry #poetryinmotion #lovethisshot #film #filmsky #whatimwatching #frankenstein #sonoffrankenstein

“Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn’t be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.” -Bride of Frankenstein, dir. James Whale (1935) #quotes #poetry #film #filmsky #whatimwatching #frankenstein #sonoffrankenstein #jameswhale

“We’ll see whether I’m crazy or not.” -Frankenstein, dir. James Whale (1931) #quotes #poetry #poetryinmotion #filmsky #whatimwatching #yeshecrazy

“What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?” -Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Lathe of Heaven” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #scifi #leguin #ursulakleguin

“because you never agreed to live in a burning home while the people who should care pretend the fire doesn’t exist.” -Nikita Gill #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #nikitagill @nikitagill.bsky.social

“…I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back again anymore-“ -Joseph Conrad, “Youth” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #youth #conrad

“A place for everything, and everything in its place.” -The Testament of Ann Lee (2025), dir. Mona Fastvold #quotes #poetry #film #filmsky #whatimwatching #testamentofannlee #fastvold

“Hubble, people *are* their principles!” -The Way We Were (1973) dir. Sydney Pollack #quotes #poetry #film #filmsky #whatimwatching #streisand #redford #pollack #pollack #fuckMAGA #abolishICE

“I don’t know how you can’t.” -The Way We Were (1973) dir. Sydney Pollack #quotes #poetry #film #filmsky #whatimwatching #streisand #redford #pollack #fuckTrump #abolishICE

The grief the grief the grief. And the rage and love. We have it in us to be so much better than this.

“He would like to use all his tallow before the light was blown out and the lantern broken.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, “A Lodging For The Night” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #robertlouisstevenson

“…not just the carcass But the spark.” -Gregory Orr #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #whatimreading #booksky #gregoryorr

Cardón, State of Oaxaca — José María Velasco, 1887

“…both ways is the only way I want it.” -A.R. Ammons #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #arammons

“there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings—the way almost every word slips in its silvery, fishlike way, weaving this way and that, adding subtleties of nuance to itself, and then perhaps shedding them…” -Simon Winchester, “The Professor and The Madman” #quotes #books

“How beautiful, these things you do, in case they help…” -Victoria Adukwei Bulley #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #victoriaadukweibulley

“Winter is an interlude. Winter is a beatitude.” -Elaine Equi #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #elaineequi

“I like when I evergreen, current and berry…” -Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #whatimreading #booksky #trommer

“Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, and doth it give me such a sight as this?” -William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” #quotes #poetry #poem #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare

“They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.” -William Shakespeare, “Romeo & Juliet” #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare #typolol

Deer in the forest | Ivan Generalic

“My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound.” -William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare

“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.” -William Shakespeare,”Romeo & Juliet” #quotes #poetry #poems #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare

“O, teach me how I should forget to think!” -William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare

“Matthew knelt before her and prayed for something which it isn’t regarded as proper to pray for, something which, if it ever came to pass, he would be compelled to confess and repent.” -Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

“The thing was to make the right mistake, not the wrong one.” -Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair

Talk to me like the rain and let me listen, let me lie here and listen. ~ Tennessee Williams

Sherrie Wolf. Plums. 2019

“…the door opened, and a mink coat walked in with a blonde inside. She was in her late twenties, had a model’s walk, and a figure made to wear clothes, but one that would look pretty good without them.” -Louis L’Amour, “Dead Man’s Trail” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour

“Hard-headed as a blind mule and rough as a chapped lip.” -Louis L’Amour, “The Hills of Homicide” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour

“But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn’t been.” -Robert Frost #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #robertfrost

"Poem" by Joe Brainard.

“She had gotten the better of herself, and asked for none of the things that belonged to this world.” -The Phantom Carriage, 1921, dir. Victor Sjöström #quotes #poetry #cinema #whatimwatching #victorsjöström