“I Must Change My Life So That I Can Live It, Not Wait For It.”

She naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel herself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography

Eileen Myles, "Sleepless." I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

“Her brown eyes were untranslatable…She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Servant”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”

— Barry H. Gillespie

“Think new things every day.”

— Democritus, Fragments, B158

E. E SCOTT

"And Cain says, “When you split me and my brother in the womb, you did not divide us evenly. He got kindness, and I got longing. He got complacence, and I got ambition. I want to kill him sometimes. I think sometimes he wants to die.”

- Nathaniel Orion, "Hevel"

Charles Baudelaire, from The Flowers of Evil: Poems; "The Possessed,"

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus