Poetry Quote by Robyn Donald — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as it was alluring, a bauble that could shatter as soon as it was grasped.”

“Know that I loved you and that I belonged to you. And I wouldn't have had it any other way.”

“Maka pada suatu pagi hari ia ingin sekali menangis sambil berjalan tunduk sepanjang lorong itu. Ia ingin pagi itu hujan turun rintik-rintik dan lorong sepi agar ia bisa berjalan sendiri saja sambil menangis dan tak ada orang bertanya kenapa.”

“I could feel the day offering itself to me,”

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”

“The campus, an academy of trees,”

“If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.”