“Sometimes We Need Someone To Simply Be There, Not To Fix Anything Or Do Anything In Particular. But

“Beware of the doctor, whose wife sells cemetery plots, whose brother owns a granite quarry, and whose father deals in shovels.”

— Unknown

“If I were consistent with what I now feel, I should bite my veins out, let them drip in every corner until I run dry.”

— poetry-siir ©

Franz Wright, from God's Silence; "East Boston, 1996"

[Text ID: The long silences need to be loved, perhaps / more than the words / which arrive / to describe them / in time.]

“Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”

— David Baldacci, The Camel Club

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless… of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?” Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”

― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”

— Kait Rokowski

“I just want to be the answer you give when someone asks you why you’ve been so happy lately.”

— iammyss

Some eyes touch you more than hands ever could.

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

— John Keats

“Sometimes you just have to stay silent because no words can explain what’s going on in your heart and mind.”

— Unknown