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"this better not be going, the way I think it's going... I think Elena is such a good narrator, she makes me feel like I'm falling for this guy, but in reality I loathe him entirely!" Jul 05, 2026 07:10PM

 
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N.H. Kleinbaum
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

Rainer Maria Rilke
“There is death in life, and it astonishes me that we pretend to ignore this: death, whose unforgiving presence we experience with each change we survive because we must learn to die slowly. We must learn to die: That is
all of life.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
tags: grief

Patti Smith
“Paths that cross will cross again.”
Patti Smith, Just Kids

Leigh Bardugo
“A lock is like a woman,” he’d said blearily. “You have to seduce it into giving up its secrets.” He was one of Per Haskell’s old cronies, happy to talk about better days and big scams, especially if it meant he didn’t have to do much work. And that was exactly the kind of muddled wisdom these old cadgers loved to spout. Sure, a lock was like a woman. It was also like a man and anyone or anything else—if you wanted to understand it, you had to take it apart and see how it worked. If you wanted to master it, you had to learn it so well you could put it back together.”
Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

Sylvia Plath
“My bones hold a stillness, the far
Fields melt my heart.”
Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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