Ena Alvarado

“This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.”
― Charles Baudelaire, On Wine and Hashish

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“I woke to the sound of rain.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

--From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel