Deborah Almonte

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

“You don’t know any of your father’s truths and he is considering his own death   17 To come from; clock as metronome—time as linear—verb transitive; to come from accents both the come, the from, is bacchic as a drum.   18 Because you’ve come from your own infant heart’s evisceration and you cannot remember being left, but you’ve been left and learned how to cherish the numb of it   19 To come from is to not need anyone. To legacy your aloneness so hard you break   20 love   21 you break. 22 All airports now make you weep. You come from weeping—Wednesday’s child; you come from woe.”
― Roger Bonair-Agard, Bury My Clothes

“You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it. ”
― Mary Oliver

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
― Mary Oliver