"now i am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern."

• frank o'hara, "mayakovsky"

"that you are infinite and infinitely yourself and it is blinding and binding and exists, your own little cosmos, right inside of you, blazing on and on and on."

• azra tabassum, "baby universes"

"look up at the stars and not down at your feet. be curious."

• stephen hawking

"oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued."

• richard siken, "i had a dream about you"