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"This is beautifully written! I love this at times almost poetic style that is also very accessible. On a different note, it reminds me of about everything I've ever disliked/dispised about organized religion, colonialism, and white people behavior." — May 08, 2026 09:46AM
"This is beautifully written! I love this at times almost poetic style that is also very accessible. On a different note, it reminds me of about everything I've ever disliked/dispised about organized religion, colonialism, and white people behavior." — May 08, 2026 09:46AM
“We are all travelers crossing from this bank to that bank, from this world to nirvana. But the waters are rough. We must rely on something in order to make it over. That something could be the art or literature that you aspire to create. You will think that the thing you choose will serve as your boat or raft to carry you to that other bank. But if you think deeply about it, you may find that it does not carry you but rather you carry it. Perhaps only the student who truly savors this paradox will make it safely across. Literature and art are not simply what will carry you; they are also what you must lay down your life for, what you must labor over and shoulder for the rest of your life.”
― I'll Be Right There
― I'll Be Right There
“I know
you don’t always understand,
but let me point to the first
wet drops landing on the stones,
the noise like fingers drumming
the skin. I can’t help it. I will
never get over making everything
such a big deal.”
― The Carrying
you don’t always understand,
but let me point to the first
wet drops landing on the stones,
the noise like fingers drumming
the skin. I can’t help it. I will
never get over making everything
such a big deal.”
― The Carrying
“Read it again, read it more slowly, that was the whole of my pedagogy when I taught my students, who were pressured everywhere else to be more efficient, to take in information more quickly, to make each moment count, to instrumentalize time, which is a terrible way to live, dehumanizing, it disfigures existence.”
― Small Rain
― Small Rain
“Listen. This is the noise of myth. It makes the same sound as shadow. Can you hear it?”
― New Collected Poems
― New Collected Poems
“I thought about the way my mind wanders, how I drift through days losing hours, forgetting to remain in my body. How they call me absentminded, forgetful. The way I am mercury spilling over surfaces—solid and liquid, here and not.”
― I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying EPB: Essays – An Instant NYT Bestselling Memoir on Living with Anxiety
― I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying EPB: Essays – An Instant NYT Bestselling Memoir on Living with Anxiety
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