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“What I know and what I feel are two very different things.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple--or a green field--a place to enter, and in which to feel.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl

“I am, myself, three selves at least. To begin with, there is the child I was. Certainly I am not that child anymore! Yet, distantly, or sometimes not so distantly, I can hear that child’s voice—I can feel its hope, or its distress. It has not vanished. Powerful, egotistical, insinuating—its presence rises, in memory, or from the steamy river of dreams. It is not gone, not by a long shot. It is with me in the present hour. It will be with me in the grave.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays