Jesse Osborne

“Maybe. But in my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.’ Like falling in love. Do the young still fall in love, or is that mechanism obsolete by now, unnecessary, quaint, like steam locomotion? He is out of touch, out of date. Falling in love could have fallen out of fashion and come back again half a dozen times, for all he knows.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

“The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole.”
― Anne Sexton, The Death Notebooks

“I know everything's alright but I want proof and the Buddhas and the Virgin Marys are there reminding me of the solemn pledge of faith in this harsh and stupid earth where we rage our so-called lives in a sea of worry, meat for Chicagos of Graves - right this minute my very father and my very brother lie side by side in mud in the North and I'm supposed to be smarter than they are - being quick I am dead.”
― Jack Kerouac, Tristessa