• "With the right people, a year is a lifetime. Find the people who want to live lives with you."
  • "I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance."
  • "I have hated words and I have loved them and I hope I have made them right."
  • "To be beheld like that – it felt like glittering."
  • "To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time."
  • "Before and now it is love between us, between you and me. Death and love. It will be whatever you want, whatever you are."
  • “Beneath the face of anyone you ever loved for true - anyone you love, you will always love, love is not at the mercy of time and it does not recognize death, they are strangers to each other - beneath the face of the beloved, however ancient, ruined, and scarred, is the face of the baby your love once was, and will always be, for you.”
  • "Poetry is what you find / in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God / in the details, the only way to get from here to there."
  • "I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
  • "Hither and thither and on and yon, / Glamorous night and clamorous dawn, / Gaining nothing and losing less, / Loving the joy, accepting the stress, / Taking whatever the Fates may give. / God, it’s a glorious life to live.”
  • "I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of the night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.”
  • "I remember when I was younger and I wanted to be beautiful; now I’m older and I want to be intelligent. I want to burn hearts with brilliance and engulf souls with compassion. I want to be loved for my thoughts and nothing else.”
  • "You’re going to meet someone who invests in you and wholeheartedly cares. You’re going to meet some who is attentive to your needs and wants. You’re going to meet someone who is so clear and bold with their love you will never have to question how they feel about you.”
  • "What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specs dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good–by.”
  • "Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here.”
jul 23 2016 ∞
apr 19 2017 +