Poetry Quote by Daphne Gottlieb — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“you can take this mouth”

“All the black leather”

“As she bends for a Kleenex in the dark, I am thinking of other girls: the girl I loved who fell in love with a lion--she lost her head over it--we just necked a lot; of the girl who fell in love with the tightrope, got addicted to getting high wired and nothing else was enough; all the beautiful, damaged women who have come through my life and I wonder what would have happened if I'd met them sooner, what they were like before they were so badly wounded. All this time I thought I'd been kissing, but maybe I'm always doing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, kissing dead girls in hopes that the heart will start again. Where there's breath, I've heard, there's hope.”

“come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did”

“Escóndeme en tus brazos”

“My Papa's Waltz:”

“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”

“We made love outdoors”

“Quiet friend who has come so far,”

“Over the solitary hills he fared,”