Emmeline

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am listening in that fine space between desire and always the grave stillness before choice.”
― Audre Lorde, The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992

“When I think of finishing the work, when I think of the finished work, a great sadness overtakes me, a sadness paradoxically like joy. The circumstances of doing put away, the being of it takes possession, like a tenant in a rented house. Where are you now, homeless heart? Caught in a hinge, or secreted behind drywall, like your nameless predecessors now that they have been given names? Best not to dwell on our situation, but to dwell in it is deeply refreshing. Like a sideboard covered with decanters and fruit. As a box kite is to a kite. The inside of stumbling. The way to breath. The caricature on the blackboard.”
― John Ashbery, Quick Question: New Poems

“People guide you and you don't even know it. You don't have simple traitors anymore like Benedict Arnold”
― William Melvin Kelley, Dunfords Travels Everywheres