“A little madness in the spring is wholesome,”
— Emily Dickinson, from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson; “A Little Madness,”
“A little madness in the spring is wholesome,”
— Emily Dickinson, from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson; “A Little Madness,”
“Prepare for continuance, open your brilliant love, your life,—April, give it tongue.”
— Muriel Rukeyser, from The Collected Poems of M. R.; “Witness the Unfailing War,”
“Sometimes I get up early and even my soul is wet. Far away the sea sounds and resounds.”
— Pablo Neruda, from “Here I Love You,” Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, translated by W.S. Merwin (Jonathan Cape, 2004)