Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words,
then labor heavily so that they may seem light.

- Wisława Szymborska
“Do you still think about him?” 
“But I’m not crying.”

- Wisława Szymborska
Everything’s mine but just on loan,
nothing for the memory to hold,
though mine as long as I look.

- Wisława Szymborska
Metaphors teach the mind
to enjoy error
and to learn
from the juxtaposition of what is and what is not the case.

- Anne Carson
WHY ISN’T IT OKAY TO SAY THERE ARE
THINGS WE HAVE NOT SURVIVED?

- Andrea Gibson
GIVE ME THE PALM OF YOUR
HAND.

I’d like to be kind to myself
in every way.

- César Vallejo
Fósforo y fósforo en la oscuridad,
lágrima y lágrima en la polvareda.

- César Vallejo
Absence has not just been a lack or a gap; 
it has been the very condition of trace and presence.

- Jacques Derrida
The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need 
and the unreasonable silence of the world.

- Albert Camus
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lord,
when you send the rain,
think about the roof,
think about the water
coming through the ceiling.

- James Baldwin
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

- Mary Oliver
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