Paul

“But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest. ”
― Billy Collins

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.”
― Li-Young Lee, Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee

“Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.”
― Li-Young Lee, Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee