If You Can Love Someone With Your Whole Heart, Even One Person, Then There’s Salvation In Life. Even

Jimmy Santiago Baca, from “I Am Offering This Poem”

The mind is a child that poisons the body over it's tantrums

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps but other people emphasize my loneliness.

Anais Nin

“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

— W. S. Merwin, Separation

“I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give. Except for a rare few.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

Anne Sexton, from The Collected Poems; “Flight”

Alanis Morissette, Sorry to Myself/Haruki Murakami,1084

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”

— Anthony Doerr

Marian Engel, from Notebooks: "Ah, Mon Cahier, čoute"

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