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  • #1
    Hermann Hesse
    “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #2
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “Come to the edge," he said.
    They said, "We are afraid."
    Come to the edge," he said.
    They came.
    He pushed them...and they flew.”
    Guillaume Apollinaire

  • #3
    V.C. Andrews
    “The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.”
    V.C. Andrews

  • #4
    Richard Lovelace
    “Stone walls do not a prison make,
    Nor iron bars a cage;
    Minds innocent and quiet take
    That for an hermitage;
    If I have freedom in my love
    And in my soul am free,
    Angels alone, that soar above,
    Enjoy such liberty.”
    Richard Lovelace, To Althea, from Prison

  • #5
    Alexandre Dumas
    “Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #6
    Elle Newmark
    “...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”
    Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief

  • #7
    Adrienne Rich
    “There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #8
    Adrienne Rich
    “I choose to love this time for once
    with all my intelligence

    -from "Splittings”
    Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

  • #9
    Adrienne Rich
    “and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us
    which will we claim
    how will we go on living
    how will we touch, what will we know
    what will we say to each other.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #10
    Adrienne Rich
    “These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.”
    Adrienne Rich, Diving Into the Wreck

  • #11
    Adrienne Rich
    “I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #12
    Adrienne Rich
    “We move but our words stand
    become responsible
    for more than we intended

    and this is verbal privilege”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #13
    Adrienne Rich
    “No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone.
    The accidents happen, we’re not heroines,
    they happen in our lives like car crashes,
    books that change us, neighborhoods
    we move into and come to love.
    Tristan and Isolde is scarcely the story,
    women at least should know the difference
    between love and death. No poison cup,
    no penance. Merely a notion that the tape-recorder
    should have caught some ghost of us: that tape-recorder
    not merely played but should have listened to us,
    and could instruct those after us:
    this we were, this is how we tried to love,
    and these are the forces they had ranged against us,
    and these are the forces we had ranged within us,
    within us and against us, against us and within us.”
    Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language

  • #14
    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    James Baldwin

  • #15
    Walt Whitman
    “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
    Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

  • #16
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #17
    Anthon St. Maarten
    “Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
    Anthon St. Maarten



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