I don’t know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J.D. Salinger
I don’t know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J.D. Salinger
You know, me and Jesus? We got the same heart. The only thing that keeps us distant is that I keep fuckin’ up.
Indigo Girls, “Shame on You”
from the album Shaming of the Sun
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
-Vandana Shiva
“So long everything!” he shouted, then he ran next door to Margot’s house.
“I’m moving,” he said.
“Where?” asked Margot.
“Two weeks away,” said Mitchell.
“Where is that?” asked Margot.
“It’s everywhere I will be after I walk for two weeks,” said Mitchell. “I have lived in the same place for a long time. It is time for me to go someplace else.”
“No,” said Margot. “You have only lived next door for fifteen years.”
“Sixteen,” said Mitchell.“Fifteen, sixteen, what’s the difference?” said Margot. “I want you to live next door forever.”
“I can’t,” said Mitchell. “I do not want to go wake up in the same old bedroom and eat breakfast in the same old kitchen. Every room in my house is the same old room because I have been there too long.”
A Spindle, a Darkness, a Fever, & a Necklace
Bright Eyes, “Fevers & Mirrors”
I am deliberate, and afraid of nothing.
Audre Lorde