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Book cover for I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven – A Traveling Poet's Funny and Moving Young Adult Stories
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don’t have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
“And lovers also gather your inheritance.
They are the poets of one brief hour.
They kiss an expressionless mouth into a smile
as if creating it anew, more beautiful.

Awakening desire, they make a place
where pain can enter;
that’s how growing happens.
They bring suffering along with their laughter,
and longings that had slept and now awaken
to weep in a stranger’s arms.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Und du erbst das Grün,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Andrew       Peterson
“Maybe the song you’re writing is for one specific heartbroken soul who won’t be born for another four hundred years.”
Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

Genki Kawamura
“As you go on with your life, always remember the things that are good in you. They're your gifts. As long as you have these things, you'll find happiness, and you'll make the people around you happy.”
Genki Kawamura, 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]

Rainer Maria Rilke
“I know that nothing has ever been real
without my beholding it.
All becoming has needed me.
My looking ripens things
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Genki Kawamura
“To live means: to cry and shout, to love, to do silly things, to feel sadness and joy, to even experience horrible, frightening things... and to laugh.”
Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

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