Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[deathbypoem]

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
― Wendell Berry

[Genesis]

[deathbypoem]

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that
they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane
enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and
compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident
and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.


~Pema Chodron

[Genesis]

"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found. You are the sky. Everything else... It's just the weather.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.

To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.

They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we’d rather collapse and back away. They’re like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we’re stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.”

~ Pema Chodron

[deathbypoem]

I am not afraid. I am astonished. I had not realized until this moment how real everything is. A twig lies on the marble at my feet, bearing a cluster of hard brown berries. The broken-off end is raw, white, fleshly. Trees are alive.

"I'm here," Carlton says again, and he is.”

~ A home at the end of the world

[deathbypoem]

"I came back because I knew
if I didn't stand in front of you and apologize
I wouldn't ever be able to live with myself"

[Genesis]

I want to fuck
the way we did when we believed
we were invincible
when we thought ourselves unbreakable
when we knew nothing of hearts shattering
or bones fracturing under the weight of unrealized dreams

I want to promise the impossible/again

I want to unlearn this hesitation
that colors my steps/measured
slow/trudge that I am now
I want the urge
to move erratic/irrational
fall helplessly in lust with someone
who was promised to someone else

I want to know that we were meant for each other

without proof I want to know
we were divined
by God or fate or fortune
I want my actions
to belie the fact of these brutal years
that have shuttered me
passions held taut beneath this loose gut

I want my body back

the one that could wrap itself careless
round the idea of forever/without fear
I want to leap off some idiotic ledge/I want to
hedge less
I want to erase these lines drawn definitive
round the edges of what I can do
i want to ignore the blotted lines running decisive
through the list of things I decided not to do

I want to do everything
you ask
ask you anything/without knowing
how you will answer

I want to shake this inertia

move you to tears/with the things
I am too afraid to say to you
late at night/early morning sex
unexpected

I want to fuck like we did
when we were doing it/for love
foolhardy/with hardly any fear of the future

I want to believe in love/like I did
before I had a kid/before we knew how to stop
mid-orgasm
before these impermeable cracks
hammered steel beams through the fragile flesh of my heart

before my art started making money
before balancing my emotional budget became a thing
I needed to do
before our wings broke
before the yoke of collected experience
dragged us away from our best selves

I want to do more than just fuck

I want more days of feeling/foolish
and full/and flustered/and flushed

I want more
of myself/more of you
more of us
wanting more out of today
and tomorrow
and all the days
we aren't even sure will ever come
I want to do everything you ask ask you anything/without knowing how you will answer...

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[lilapache]

He who throws dirt is losing ground.
author unknown

[ProfPacker]

the Rizzoli & Isles commercial just said "Behind Every Great Woman is Another Great Woman" couldn't agree more

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[Smiling]

[Talon]

I am seeking,
I am striving,
I am in it with all of my


~Van Gogh



Art is the stored honey of the human soul.


~Unknown

[Genesis]

Patience, above all else, is what is needed right now.
Do not let anxiousness or frustration take over.
Conditions on the exterior of your experience will change, but your highest benefit will be achieved when conditions in your interior remain the same.
Hold to your inner peace.
Reclaim your identity.
Trust your higher wisdom.
Look to the grander vision.

—Neale Donald Walsch