B. R. Lind

“And that must end us, that must be our cure:
To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night
Devoid of sense and motion?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.”
― William H. Gass

“My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?”
― Emily Dickinson

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
― T.S. Eliot