Tayla Linford

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.”
― Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”
― Mary Oliver

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen