“Books Are Easily Destroyed. But Words Will Live As Long As People Can Remember Them.”

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.]

Quiet people are aware that they are quiet. You don’t need to remind them.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

- Jaime Gil De Biedma

“It makes me sad waking up alone when there’s someone willing to wake up with me”

— -3 am thoughts (via suspend)

“We’re all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there’s more to me than that. I just haven’t had the chance yet to show it.”

— Jessi Kirby, Golden

“Your truest friends are the ones who stand by you in your darkest moments, because they are willing to brave the shadows with you, and in your greatest moments, because they are not afraid to let you shine.”

— Nicole Yatsonsky

“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 ©

“We often want it so badly that we ruin it before it begins. Overthinking. Fantasizing. Imagining. Expecting. Worrying. Doubting. Just let it naturally evolve”

— Unknown

“Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen.”

— Jonathan Lethem, You Don’t Love Me Yet