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.

116th.

"How swiftly the strained honey of afternoon light flows into darkness and the closed bud shrugs off its special mystery in order to break into blossom: as if what exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious." - Lisel Mueller




Photo is "The Day Awakens" - from Lomeafaer.

115th.

"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish." - Federico Garcia Lorca




Photo is "Big City Nights" - from Zen-Master.

114th.

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong




Photo is 'Winter's Advice" - from intao.