Marvee Khalid

“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they “free” wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it anyway, that widening. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays