Elisabeth McLaughlin

“There are more things to admire in men then to despise.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Making poems was a way of loving things, I had always thought, of preserving them, of living moments twice; or more than that, it was a way of living more fully, of bestowing on experience a richer meaning. But”
― Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You

“I fell back from him then, I lay next to him thinking, as I had had cause to think before, of how helpless desire is outside its little theater of heat, how ridiculous it becomes the moment it isn't welcomed, even if that welcome is contrived.”
― Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You

“[P]oetry makes nothing happen. That's the relief of it. And the reason why nothing can substitute for it.”
― Kay Ryan, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose