What is my heart to you
that you must break it over and over …

 Louise Glück, from “Matins”, in ‘The Blue Iris

holes in the puzzle, puzzle in the holes

Just when we start to believe in moonlight
we notice how many stars it erases.

- Rick Jackson

There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.

—  A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

Enough seen….Enough had….Enough…

     —Arthur Rimbaud

  “How can you cry for one ruined life, Maria,
when you could be grieving for heaven?”  

 Maria Hummel, from “One Life” 

“I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write
swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship
and drifted away at last through the night sky.”
 
Tomas Tranströmer

I don’t trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

Vincent Gallo 

I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing

—  Allen Ginsberg

I change and I am the same.

Mark Strand

“I am the world
But the world’s not me.”

— Daniil Kharms

“The song is over
Look after yourselves.”

— Ian Duhig, from: “The Viaduct Love Suicide”

“You don’t need to be taught to cry.
The soul presses a button.
Is the cry saying something?
Does it mean help?
Or hello?”

Anne Sexton - Taken From ‘Hurry Up Please, It’s Time’