Emily

“... 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

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“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

“She had been to a tea-party with an antediluvian monster, and that they had been waited on by up-to-date men-servants.”
― Bram Stoker, Lair of the White Worm