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If I had known what trouble you were bearing;
What griefs were in the silence of your face;
I would have been more gentle, and more caring,

- Mary Carolyn Davies, If I Had Known

The wind is cool. Nothing is happening.
I do not strive for meaning. When I lie on my back
the wind passes over me, I do not feel it.

- Alden Nowlan, July 15

On a soft pillow
I will lay down my limbs

- Sappho, Fragment 46

If I describe my house
I may at last describe my self

but I will surely lie
about the house.

- George Bowering, The House

I felt a clearing in my mind
As if my brain had split;
I tried to match it, seam by seam,
But could not make them fit.

The thought behind I strove to join
Unto the thought before,
But sequence ravelled out of reach
Like balls upon a floor.

- Emily Dickinson

Sky: an eye that never blinks.
So much pain in me some days
I bend double under its gaze,
each vertebra a stone.
This is what comes of being
too much alone. There's no end
to it here, the sky gives you
all the room you need
to grow small.

- Lorna Crozier, All the Room You Need

A new gasp of further isolation,
A new intoxication of loneliness, among decaying, frost-
cold leaves.

- D.H. Lawrence, Medlars and Sorb-Apples

I want
to hang on
she said

- Sappho, Fragment 76

The way through the forest
is danced by wild girls with sharp teeth
who throw streams of frantically beating butterflies
into the air.

- Sandra Kasturi, Chaos Theory

This is the beauty
of strength
broken by strength
and still strong.

- A.J.M. Smith, The Lonely Land