littleghostelli

“The trick is to find out what we know, challenge what we know, own what we know, and then give it away in language: I love my brother, I hate winter, I always lose my keys.”
― Kim Addonizio, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

“Every life is a piece of art, put together with all means available.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“I break the hand, slice the heart—I mean I break the bread, slice the apple—and eat them.”
― Sara Eliza Johnson, Bone Map: Poems

“That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves