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“When the world as as knew it ended, we stood up again in the ruin, and found a way to keep walking through tears.”
― Catching the Light
― Catching the Light
“You think because l'm kind that it means I'm naive, and maybe I am. It's strategic and necessary. This is how I fight.”
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“It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the children supposed to do? Turn around and do the whole thing over again? Well, what do you do when what you've got isn't worth carrying on? The things people do for family.”
― The Hole
― The Hole
“My dear, you think too hard," was all she said. "Come here." She stood up and wrapped me in her arms. We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.”
― Who Fears Death
― Who Fears Death
“We never fully die even in what we think of as actual death. We change again and become echoes in others, and they carry us forward.”
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“What we bring, finally, into the new day, every day,
Is ourselves. And that’s all we need
To start. That’s everything we require to keep going.
Look back only for as long as you must,
Then go forward into the history you will make.”
― Not Go Away Is My Name
Is ourselves. And that’s all we need
To start. That’s everything we require to keep going.
Look back only for as long as you must,
Then go forward into the history you will make.”
― Not Go Away Is My Name
“Listen, no one signed up for this lullaby.
No bleeped sheep or rosebuds or twitching stars
will diminish the fear or save you from waking
into the same day you dreamed of leaving—”
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No bleeped sheep or rosebuds or twitching stars
will diminish the fear or save you from waking
into the same day you dreamed of leaving—”
―
“Life is like that. You think you’re just slogging along and then something reminds you that just getting up in the morning and choosing to live is something miraculous. I try to hold that with me. I need to hold that with me.”
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“The thing that makes me break down in tears the most often is not grief, but human resilience. To watch someone dress their kids and get them to school, ship them off with backpacks and N95 masks knowing how hard the world is.
To watch someone keep going with some sort of unfathomable fortitude, no matter how rough the human waters, that is what astounds me.
And still we go on, the world seems to say.”
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To watch someone keep going with some sort of unfathomable fortitude, no matter how rough the human waters, that is what astounds me.
And still we go on, the world seems to say.”
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“If I listened close enough, the mountains seemed to be saying, “We are all doing our best with this life.”
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“My friends often state in the midst of otherwise
loving group chat missives that life is trash, though
we all keep trying to make one for some reason
or another”
― The Study of Human Life
loving group chat missives that life is trash, though
we all keep trying to make one for some reason
or another”
― The Study of Human Life
“Remember how you didn’t fall yesterday
even though you thought you would?
Life can be like that all the time if you
let it.”
―
even though you thought you would?
Life can be like that all the time if you
let it.”
―
“Everett Anderson says, "I knew
my daddy loved me through and through,
and whatever happens when people die,
love doesn't stop, and
neither will I.”
― Everett Anderson's Goodbye
my daddy loved me through and through,
and whatever happens when people die,
love doesn't stop, and
neither will I.”
― Everett Anderson's Goodbye
“We could not swim, but now we are swimming—
We have to swim.
It is not fair. It is never fair.
We have no chance to be part of the decision
That changes us.
We were, and then we are. Regrettably,
We are not alone. If it is one of us,
It is all of us, so many of us.”
― Not Go Away Is My Name
We have to swim.
It is not fair. It is never fair.
We have no chance to be part of the decision
That changes us.
We were, and then we are. Regrettably,
We are not alone. If it is one of us,
It is all of us, so many of us.”
― Not Go Away Is My Name
“There is no sense in anything I do, if the house burns down.” And yet it is exactly while the house is burning that one must carry on as always, must do everything with care and precision, perhaps even more diligently—even if no one notices. Perhaps life will disappear from Earth leaving no memory of what was done, for better or for worse. But you must carry on as before; it is too late to change; there is no more time.”
― When the House Burns Down: From the Dialect of Thought
― When the House Burns Down: From the Dialect of Thought
“It’s a kind of
love, isn’t it?
To commit to enduring.
Despite, despite. And is my loneliness capable
of that kind of enduring love?”
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love, isn’t it?
To commit to enduring.
Despite, despite. And is my loneliness capable
of that kind of enduring love?”
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“A tank. His wife had once called him that. He rolled right over whatever life put in front of him.”
― Vigil
― Vigil
“15. The inevitability of a scarred life, your pulse, stitches,
this palace of breath
16. go on, go on / again, again / return, return”
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this palace of breath
16. go on, go on / again, again / return, return”
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“Where are we all going?
Into the next new world of the next new day.”
― 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
Into the next new world of the next new day.”
― 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
“Months have passed, each one filled with foreboding and silence. Disasters are flowing together into a delta that has no name, and will only be given one by geographers, who will come later, much later. Nothing to do today but to try to walk on the bitter waters of this nameless delta.”
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“Everyone is trying their best please remain calm you may
experience some turbulence flatulence a touch of total nauseating
love that is normal but keep it under control”
― When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
experience some turbulence flatulence a touch of total nauseating
love that is normal but keep it under control”
― When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
“the more I fingered the clay slab into a bowl,
the more misshapen it became; though I have
botched this, bungled that, the errancies
reveal it would not be better if things happened
just as I wished”
― Sight Lines
the more misshapen it became; though I have
botched this, bungled that, the errancies
reveal it would not be better if things happened
just as I wished”
― Sight Lines
“What did not surprise enough:
my daily expectation that anything would continue,
and then that so much did continue, when so much did not.”
― Ledger: Poems
my daily expectation that anything would continue,
and then that so much did continue, when so much did not.”
― Ledger: Poems
“Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It's not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances.”
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“Gather your losses, oblong
& indiscriminate: avocado rot,
football, cracked soap dish;
dropped eggshells, embryo
gone. Gather mutilated joy.
Smelted promises. Aloft,
here & now. In open air.
Gather your heartbreak, wind-
ing & windowless. Animal
the shadow, lurking
at the edges
of your mouth.
Needle into a nest
your intricate sorrows.
Roost there. Gather
yourself. In a clearing—
Or gather your losses
like twin sheets, stripped
from a sick child’s bed.
I know I know it’s difficult
to face it alone.
To know you must
gather your darkness
or lose yourself to the animal
that thrives therein. To vanquish
your losses in daylight,
gather your life
by the scruff. Hold on
to what you can.”
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& indiscriminate: avocado rot,
football, cracked soap dish;
dropped eggshells, embryo
gone. Gather mutilated joy.
Smelted promises. Aloft,
here & now. In open air.
Gather your heartbreak, wind-
ing & windowless. Animal
the shadow, lurking
at the edges
of your mouth.
Needle into a nest
your intricate sorrows.
Roost there. Gather
yourself. In a clearing—
Or gather your losses
like twin sheets, stripped
from a sick child’s bed.
I know I know it’s difficult
to face it alone.
To know you must
gather your darkness
or lose yourself to the animal
that thrives therein. To vanquish
your losses in daylight,
gather your life
by the scruff. Hold on
to what you can.”
―
“God bless the unkillable
interior bless the uprising
bless the rebellion bless
the overflow God
bless everything that survives
the fire”
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interior bless the uprising
bless the rebellion bless
the overflow God
bless everything that survives
the fire”
―
“The path is forgotten, but we are still walking:
we whirl out our limbs to the defeated world,
this city's tiny blue welt of sky”
― Sharks in the Rivers
we whirl out our limbs to the defeated world,
this city's tiny blue welt of sky”
― Sharks in the Rivers
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