elise anderson

“but it is not what one does so much as the way that while one does it time runs past forever.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

“It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobey yourself. I don't know if I like my poems, but I know that if I hadn't written them I'd be dumber, more useless, more individualistic. I publish them because they're alive. I don't know if they're good, but they deserve to live.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

“That's what life is: a bunch of thorns, and a berry.”
― Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

“The less time spent in public, the safer girls feel. That’s not incidental; the world was built that way.”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour