Drew

“Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.”
― Louise Glück, Descending Figure

“He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy.”
― Harold Brodkey, First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert