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“It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“These days many poets live in cities, or at least in
suburbs, and the natural world grows ever more distant from our everyday lives. Most people, in fact, live in cities, and therefore most readers are not necessarily very familiar with the natural world. And yet the natural world has always been the great warehouse of symbolic imagery. Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.”
― Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

“I killed a plant once because I gave
it too much water. Lord, I worry
that love is violence.”
― José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal

“...like she needed to make sure I was happy before she could be too.... That's not how you fall in love. But it's close.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls