Emily

“Only to have a grief
equal to all these tears!

There's not a sob in my chest.
Dry hearted Peer Gynt
I pare away, no hero,
merely a cook.”
― Adrienne Rich, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law

“Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.”
― Thylias Moss, Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky

“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

“... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”
― Audre Lorde