Alice Cormier

“If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.”
― Rita Dove

“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”
― Oscar Wilde

“be strange to yourself
in your love, your grief”
― Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous