“I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.” LittlesBoysClothesObsessionObsessedLittle Boys Author:Robert Vaughn
“We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.” NeedsSatisfiedObsessionManageObsessedGood LifeUnsatisfied Author:Kjell Magne Bondevik
“My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.” UsedTakenObsessionUsed To BePrisonerProtector Author:Mason Cooley
“At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.” PoetryDarknessWingsEveningCasualFlocksAmbiguousPigeons Author:Wallace Stevens
“But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.” PoetryNightTurnsGonePoetIgnorantDawnPaceMuse Author:Anna Akhmatova
“Girl with the burning golden eyes, And red-bird song, and snowy throat: I bring you gold and silver moons, And diamond stars, and mists that float. I bring you moons and snowy clouds, I bring you prarie skies to-night To feebly praise your golden eyes And red-bird song, and throat so white. ~Vachel Lindsay "To Gloriana" God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see.” FirstsMadeEyeEarthPoetryNightSongGirlStarsWhiteTreeSkyMoonBirdRedGoldPraiseCloudsGoldenBurningHillsSilverThroatDiamondPaleFloatsMistEnchantedGold And SilverSnowyBird SongGolden Eye Author:Grace Noll Crowell
“Her eyes the glowworm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.” LittlesEyePoetryStarsFireTheeShootingSparksHer EyesShooting Star Author:Robert Herrick
“I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.” GivingPainPoetrySadnessMoonRainMadnessNew Moon Author:Dorothy Parker
“I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important.” IfsWantFirstsImportantFacesMotherPoetryFatherStarsWonderImagineBabyMoonRootsDistanceRoundsBoxesDumbStaringPaleMineralsStripes Author:Sylvia Plath
“If I could take your troubles I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that is always there.” IfsKnowsPoetryImpossibleTroubleSeaMountainFindingsFairsLet MeIf I CouldRainbowToss Author:Khalil Gibran