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“Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you.”
― Robert F. Young, The Dandelion Girl

“The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”
― Alasdair Gray

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying”
― Ted Hughes, Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow

“In this place of light: he dares to live
Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings
Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.”
― Theodore Roethke

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

“The life of this world is wind
Windblown we come, and windblown we go away.
All that we look on is windfall.
All we remember is wind.”
― Charles Wright, The Southern Cross

“Only poetry isn't shit.”
― Roberto Bolano

“My mind was empty as a ballroom and I was not compelled to dance.”
― Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry: Poems