chzardale

“LONELINESS I too have known loneliness. I too have known what it is to feel misunderstood, rejected, and suddenly not at all beautiful. Oh, mother earth, your comfort is great, your arms never withhold. It has saved my life to know this. Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the morning. Oh, motions of tenderness!”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Horses: Poems

“Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus the King

“What we love, shapely and pure,
is not to be held,
but to be believed in.”
― Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems