“If We Wait Until We’re Ready, We’ll Be Waiting For The Rest Of Our Lives.”

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams

“Today is a wonderful day, an avalanche of light and I would like to stand with you in this rain of sunshine, to flow together, to melt into it… in mornings like this, life roars within me.”

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Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, January 13, 1950 [#128]

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Marian Engel, from Notebooks: “Ah, Mon Cahier, čoute”

Text ID: I fade into dreams.

My nights are for over-thinking; my days are for over-sleeping.

Hedonist Poet

Yanyi, from Dream of the Divided Field: Poems; “The Friend”

[Text ID: “stop fighting, but I am not / fighting. I am noticing / where I don’t exist. / I should leave.”]

Ruth Awad, from “Reasons To Live”

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

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

— Cormac McCarthy

e.e. cummings, from “Longing” (in Uncollected Poems), Complete Poems: 1904-1962

[Text ID: “O night, mother divine of poetry and stars!”]

“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”

— Miyamoto Musashi