Kevin Manh

“Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?”
― Charles Baudelaire, Artificial Paradises

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Say surrender. Say alabaster. Switchblade.

Honeysuckle. Goldenrod. Say autumn.
Say autumn despite the green
in your eyes. Beauty despite
daylight. Say you’d kill for it. Unbreakable dawn
mounting in your throat.
My thrashing beneath you
like a sparrow stunned
with falling.”
― Ocean Vuong

“Collecting and hoarding seem to be about the loss of others, while philanthropy and de-accessioning are more about the impending loss of self. (Whoever dies with the most toys actually loses.)”
― Douglas Coupland, Bit Rot