34 quotes found
“the moon is just another kind of clock”
“Sometimes darknessis the beauty I am made of”
“To suffer together is to suffer with beauty,”
“Sometimes darknessis the beauty I am made of—”
“To suffer together is to suffer with beauty...”
“As I go under, I wonder if theres a reason for art?”
“We must live with our hearts in our hands - like Mary.We must hold the blood-red heart and no be disappointedwhen others look away.”
“Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe then I'd understand how it's the little things that pull you under.”
“Yes, it hurts to fall ache, tendernessbut each scar is a sign your system is working.”
“She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artists marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.”
“in the corner of the painting of successthe signature is blurred”
“Like the kite that caught up to the sky,painted with clouds, I lost track of it, but it was connected by string, something I was holding, something I could always bring back.”
“Maybe Im still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.”
“I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a barit was tense.”
“For everyone who never smiled in school photos, for all whove wandered city streetsnot knowing the where they were or feeling alone, Ive packed kindness.”
“I dont believe we should carry backupplans in lifes suitcasetheyre too easy to unpack like living a life in yoga pants, so comfortable our hips spreadinto new timezones...”
“I wonder if I might be lonelierif I didn't have loneliness”
“Understand, its never been easy to live, when were trying to escape ourselves.”
“I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.”
“...look up and see the madnessorganized in the stars.”
“A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper hats, new couples falling from couches and love- seatsthe pleasure remembered, never the regret.”
“and everyone wants to read the poem were afraid to write.”
