Maria Gray

“I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside
Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside
Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house
But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing”
― Andrea Gibson

“I'm writing mostly to thank you for living
you eighty years
and to tell you I love you
and think of you often.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25

“There are so many people who’ve come before us,
arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo.
Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them,
generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay.
I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.”
― Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things

“To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.”
― Andrea Gibson