126th.

"I sit in my chair all day and work and work Measuring words against each other. I open the piano and play a tune But find it does not say what I feel, I grow tired of measuring words against each other, I grow tired of these four walls, And I think of you." - Conrad Aiken




Photo is "Miss You" - from Anarchsoul.

125th.

"Death is not the final word. Without ears, my father still listens, still shrugs his shoulders whenever I ask a question he doesn't want to answer ... Without eyes, my father still looks around. He sees what I am trying to do, sees that I have grown less passive with his passing, understands my need for answers only he can provide." - Lisa Zaran




Photo is "Death Is" - from er0k.

124th.

"It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it as the same time." - William Carlos Williams




Photo is "Belief" - from Masterwks.

123rd.

"I stayed on to warm up the ink in which I drown and to listen to my alternative cavern, tactile nights, abstracted days. The unknown shuddered in my tonsil and I creaked from an annual melancholy, solar nights, lunar days, Parisian sunsets. And still, this very day, at nightfall, I digest the most scared certainties, maternal nights, great-granddaughter days, bicolored, voluptuous, urgent, lovely." - Cesar Vallejo




Photo is "Parisian Sunset" - from hello-taipan.

122nd.

"No one worth possessing can be quite possessed." - Sara Teasdale




Photo is "Curious Thought in a Bell Jar" - from Emerald-Magpie.

121st.

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me ... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." - Shel Silverstein




Photo is "The Giving Tree" - from o0alexOo.

120th.

"I might show the facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away." -Christina Rossetti




Photo is "Blind" - from ReeEjKa.

119th.

"The test of whether it's poetry is: does it sound beautiful when you say the words over, in your mind or your voice, with no skilled performer, no music, just the sounds and meanings in the words themselves." - Robert Pinsky




Photo is "Sound And Vision" - from SoundVsVision.

118th.

"I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression." - Sharon Olds




Photo is "Newspaper" - from hamstergeddon.

117th.

"I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm." - Ogden Nash




Photo is "Seduction" - from BeautyOfDark.