Nancy

“I had not been prepared for the simple charm of watching someone you love grow.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.”
― Woolf Virginia, A Room of One's Own

“...poetry has always been for me a participation in the humanly modulated time of my contemporaries.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

“After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts