—YOU CAN’T TELL A STAR TO SHINE, OR A CARPET TO FLY, BUT IT'LL ALL HAPPEN IN TIME

 

 

…It’s been a good week, visiting with friends again after such long absences. It makes everything more bearable and noteworthy. I think it would be impossible to live alone. I don’t know how some people do it.

 

…Here comes the weekend, and here are some things I like to ponder.

 

--“Friendship is an involuntary reflex, you can’t help it.” HIMYM

 

--“There are very few people you meet in life who change you.” Connor Oberst, about Phoebe Bridgers

 

--"The main thing is this—when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning.... Say anything, but be respectful. Say—maybe say, Heart, little heart, beat softly but never forget your job, the blood. You can whisper also, Remember, remember." Grace Paley

 

--“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.” Jack Kerouac

 

--"I call them diamonds: the good that comes out of every pressure situation. It we don't look for the diamonds, it's just a waste." Fawn Weaver

 

--“I know how hard it is to even write a good sentence.” Erin O’Brien

 

--“There are only two ways to live: as if nothing is a miracle, and is everything is.” Einstein

 

--“What can’t be said will be wept.” —Sappho

 

--“If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every time.” Leonard Cohen

 

--“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you’re alive.” Hafiz

 

--“If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.” Gregory Nunzio Corso

 

--“I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.” Anne Sexton

 

--“I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows with a harp and sword in my hands.” Zora Neale Hurston

 

--“I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.” William Stafford

 

--"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?" James Matthew Barrie