Dean

“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”
― James Baldwin

“The twinkling steel above me is a star; I am a fallen Christmas tree. Our car Races through seven red-lights—then the road Is unpatrolled and empty, and a load Of ply-wood with a tail-light makes us slow. I turn and whisper in her ear. You know I want to leave my mother and my wife, You wouldn’t have me tied to them for life … Time runs, the windshield runs with stars.”
― Robert Lowell, New Selected Poems

“Climb High
Climb Far
Your Goal
The Sky
Your Aim
The Star”
― St.William College, Mark & Albert Hopkins Memorial

“This was the secret I learned that day: none of them want to be saved. They all want to sink backward toward the earth again, to be swallowed by the ground, to keep sleeping. There is hatred on their faces when they are roused from the dead.”
― Liz Moore, Long Bright River