--THERE ARE DYNASTIES OF BROKEN WINDOWS

 

-“Don’t quit.  It’s very easy to quit during the first ten years.  Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other.  You can’t get fired if you don’t write, and most of the time you don’t get rewarded if you do.  But don’t quit.” Andre Dubus

 -“The force that pulses

 in the boughs of trees

and in the sap of plants

 also inhabits poems

but it’s calm there.” -Adam Zagajewski

 

-“Hangovers are the perfect state to be creative—nothing feels real.” Florence Welch

-“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. But I say, ‘Bitch, you’re Lady Gag.  You get up and walk the walk today’.” Lady Gaga

-"We've all got to go to school, I expect, and we don't all get the same lesson to learn, but the one we do get is our'n, 'taint nobody else's, and if it's real hard, why, it shows the teacher thinks we're capable." Rose Terry Cooke

-“It’s cruel to keep the mouse alive just because the snake has lost interest.” Maggie Nelson

-“Alcohol doesn’t console.  All it does is replace the absence of God.”  Dumas

-"We need a renaissance of wonder.  We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic." E. Merrill Root

-“’Why is the sky blue?’  I try to explain it to someone or remember my answer myself.  Now I like to remember the question alone, as it reminds me that my mind is essentially a sieve, that I am mortal.” Maggie Nelson

-“Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer it as it is now.  Ravaged.” Marguerite Duras

-“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.  You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it.  It is enough.”  Toni Morrison

-“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” William James

-“Imagine someone saying, ‘Our fundamental situation is joyful!’  Now imagine believing it.  Or forget belief: imagine feeling, even if for a moment, that it were true.”  Maggie Nelson

-“From the mountains, you can see the mountain.” Emerson.

-“For Plato, color was as dangerous a narcotic as poetry.” Maggie Nelson

-“Why should I feel lonely?  Is not our planet in the Milky Way?” Thoreau

-“Men supposedly get blue, but women get the deepest blue.” Maggie Nelson

-“As a rule we find pleasure much less pleasurable and pain much more painful than we expected.” Schopenhauer

-“Love is not a consolation.  It is light.” Simone Weil

 -“Even the silence has a story to tell you.” Jacqueline Woodson