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  • #1
    Zadie Smith
    “You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
    Zadie Smith, White Teeth

  • #2
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays

  • #3
    Walt Whitman
    “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #4
    Anne Carson
    “What would it be like
    to live in a library
    of melted books.

    With sentences streaming over the floor
    and all the punctuation
    settled to the bottom as a residue.

    It would be confusing.
    Unforgivable.
    A great adventure.”
    Anne Carson

  • #5
    Anne Carson
    “It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.”
    Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

  • #6
    Leonard Cohen
    “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #7
    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #8
    Leonard Cohen
    “Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
    Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #10
    Audre Lorde
    “I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.”
    Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

  • #11
    Audre Lorde
    “Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #12
    Charles Dickens
    “What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
    Charles Dickens

  • #13
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #14
    “They call it 'the whispering of the stars.' Listen," he said, raising a finger for silence. I could still hear the tinkling and craned my neck to see what it was. Zhensky laughed. "No, here. Look." He formed his mouth into a wide O and exhaled slowly. As he did, I saw the cloud of breath fall in droplets to the ground. That was the sound I heard: our breath falling. "It's a Yakut expression. It means a period of weather so cold that your breath falls frozen to the ground before it can dissipate. The Yakuts say that you should never tell secrets outside during the whispering of the stars, because the words themselves freeze, and in the spring thaw anyone who walks past that spot will be able to hear them.”
    Jon Fasman, The Geographer's Library

  • #15
    John Muir
    “The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
    John Muir

  • #16
    W.H. Auden
    “All we are not stares back at what we are.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #17
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer

  • #18
    Angela Y. Davis
    “If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.”
    Angela Davis

  • #19
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #20
    Sylvia Plath
    “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #21
    John Steinbeck
    “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
    John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

  • #22
    Henry James
    “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
    Henry James

  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #24
    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    Vincent Willem van Gogh

  • #25
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #26
    Henry David Thoreau
    “All good things are wild and free.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #27
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #28
    Richard Siken
    “A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
                        but then he’s still left
    with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
                                                                            but then he’s still left with his hands.”
    Richard Siken, Crush

  • #29
    Richard Siken
    “Sunlight pouring across your skin, your shadow
    flat on the wall.
    The dawn was breaking the bones of your heart like twigs.
    You had not expected this,
    the bedroom gone white, the astronomical light pummeling
    you in a stream of fists.
    You raised your hand to your face as if
    to hide it, the pink fingers gone gold as the light
    streamed straight to the bone,
    as if you were the small room closed in glass
    With every speck of dust illuminated.
    The light is no mystery,
    the mystery is that there is something to keep the light
    From passing through.”
    Richard Siken, Crush

  • #30
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar



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