Ben

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed
by our own seed & hairy naked
accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown vision.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

“You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.”
― Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding