Linds Plumm

“After the death of the poet Jane Kenyon, her husband Donald Hall wrote, “We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing. Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment. Each member of a couple is separate; the two come together in double attention.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“And what happens to us when we leave our world? Children were trained to answer, 'we become everything that we pass until we become the thing we created.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
― Emily Dickinson