Lori Morgan

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“We crossed this river then and pulled away, and in the empty fields the lark still spilled praise.”
― Olivia Laing, To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface

“Meaning wasn’t in me, meaning wasn’t in another, meaning arose in the encounter between us.”
― Karl Ove Knausgaard, The Morning Star

“Writing a poem is like trying to halt a supertanker by holding a dandelion up to it. You can laugh at the frivolity of it. You can ridicule the person for doing such a thing. But—and I’m not saying this makes you one of them—when you laugh at poets, you laugh alongside tyrants. You are standing next to the powerful and the angry and the rich, and you might as well be a bully too, laughing at the weak person cutting snowflakes out of tissue paper. Yes, you are right. But is right everything you want to be?”
― Nick Jaina, Hitomi