some quotes..

"If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
"I love her for her smile... her look.. her way"

"Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity wiping my cheeks dry"

"love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love all through love's eternity"

- Elizabeth Barret Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese XIV

"And yet the crowd that gather at her side
Are plae, and every gazer holds his breath.
Eyes fill with tears unbidden for the bride -
The biride of Death"

- Letitia Elizabeth London, A Suttee

"She had lived
A sort of cage-bird life, born in a cage
Accounting that to leap from perch to perch
Was act and joy enough for any bird"

"I, alas,
A wild bird scarcely fledged, was brought to her cage,
And there she was to meet me. Very kind.
Bring the clean water; give out the fresh seed."

Elizabeth Barret Browning, Aurora Leigh

"I am the pillars of the house
The keystone of the arch am I"

"I am the fire upon the hearth,
I am the light of the good sun."

"I am their light of love alive"

"I am the house from floor to roof"

"I am their wall against all danger"

- Katherine Tynan, Any Woman

"I shall never get you put together entirely"

"Thirty years now I have laboured
To dredge the slit from your throat
I am none the wiser"

Sylvia Plath, The Colossus

"Dying is an art,like everything else,
I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've got a call"

"Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
Ans I eat men like air"

Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus

"I write in praise of the solitary act"

"No need to set the scene,
dress up (or undress), make speeches."

Fluer Adcock, Against Coupling

"And de people pouring out from de undrground system
Like beans"

"I don't really know where I belaang"

Wherever I hang my knickers - thet's my home"

Grace Nichols, Wherever I Hang

"Ain't I a woman"

"I could work as much
and eat as much as a man-
when I could get to it -
and bear the lash as well"

Erlene Stetson, Ain't I a woman