“Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers.
If you do not come, these do not matter.
If you do come, these do not matter.”
— Rumi, Quatrain 914, Open Secret: Versions of Rumi (translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks)
“I didn’t trust it for a moment,
but I drank it anyway,
the wine of my own poetry.
It gave me the daring to take hold
of the darkness and tear it down
and cut it into little pieces.”
— Lalla, Naked Song (trans. Coleman Barks)
(Source: awakeinthedream)
“Well, I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.” —Erskine Caldwell
I need feminism because I should be allowed to wear a t-shirt with a female artist on without being called a “lesbian.”
“I need feminism, because when my Dad says he’s building a track in the backyard people shouldn’t assume it’s for my brother.”
I’ve been working on...
This is beautiful. And...
I need feminism because I shouldn’t have felt embarrassed or ashamed that my boyfriend was abusing me
Awesome! Patrick Ness, author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, has tweeted #TheLanguageof Love!: ‘Very sweet!’ <3
