quotes
“ To end on hope: collectively, in what ways do you feel we can effectually repair and improve our humanity ?”
Her response:
Her response:
Make room for each other. I think we live in a world—I don’t think, I know—we live in a world that keeps spaces so narrow, and I think that writing poetry—the arts—is the biggest lane of all. That’s why I love being a poet; th... See more
The problem of too many notebooks
Nikky Finney
With idleness comes godliness.
Albert Cossery | Are.na
Albert Cossery
"Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?"
— Mary Oliver
“The mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day.”
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
dickens
"how necessary sundays have become. I reach for them like the sleeping lovers on the other side of my earth of my mattress"
- Darnell Lamont Walker
“There’s a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting,” from Slowness by Milan Kundera.
Video
Grow your own flowers and give them away to everyone you meet. You’re right: the earth is not very fertile, people are not always grateful, flowers eventually die. But do you still see the point of it all? Do you see the beauty of the gesture?