Kelly Baron

“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.”
― Georgia O'Keeffe

“I do not think I really have anything to say about poetry other than remarking that it is a wandering little drift of unidentified sound, and trying to say more reminds me of following the sound of a thrush into the woods on a summer's eve - if you persist in following the thrush it will only recede deeper and deeper into the woods; you will never actually see the thrush (the hermit thrush is especially shy), but I suppose listening is a kind of knowledge, or as close as one can come." (viii)”
― Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“199. For to wish to forget how much you loved someone—and then, to actually forget—can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.”
― Nelson Algren