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"Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it… They are, ideally, places where nothing happens, and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens into another world… engrossing books are landscapes into which readers vanish. (Flight)" — 7 hours, 57 min ago
"Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it… They are, ideally, places where nothing happens, and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens into another world… engrossing books are landscapes into which readers vanish. (Flight)" — 7 hours, 57 min ago
“Tears
The crystal rags
Viscous tatters
of a worn-through soul”
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The crystal rags
Viscous tatters
of a worn-through soul”
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“When your mama is in heaven there is nothing to stop her from loving you - not a man, not a job, not whatever she wanted to be doing but she had kids instead. When the sun shines, you can feel that pure love on you. It tastes like sugarcane.”
― Kin
― Kin
“A silent tear slips down my cheek. It strikes me that, with all the cruelties in this world, there is still nothing quite as dangerous as kindness.”
― Mad Mabel
― Mad Mabel
“I was young then and so hungry for experience that some days I could taste it like blood in the back of my throat. This is what I'll admit: I wanted it. All of it. I did this to myself.”
― Flashout
― Flashout
“But if you feel the need to trust language again, to remember that language could have power, could hold multiple truths, then you need poetry. If you need to be reminded of what makes us human, tender, brave, flawed, and worthy of love, then you need poetry.”
― Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry
― Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry
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