Right Now More Than Ever Quotes

“I teach myself to control the forward fall. Sometimes there’s a breath in the trees that crowd the lakeshore”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“I say your name out loud in the blue, in a field of fields, in my own voice. I keep going.”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“Tuesday clouds this hectic splatter, distorts the calendar’s faith in progression, its suspicion of narrative.”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“Early morning & I don’t care that it’s starless. It’s okay that it’s endless but full of endings.”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“& I am wildly annunciatory; I am some pine tree utterance; I am a broken sonnet shattered in the fall & fitted back together.”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“Frost in autumn, frost at midnight, Frost on a hotel bed, telescoping from mountains to buzzsaws, each of your eyes a diamond ripping through my wooden soul, a stunning revelation no matter which of five mountain ranges you’re planted on”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“in love with the ground, the feet of the real buried in sand on a beach you can’t reach except in memory.”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“Me a proud honorary astronaut sent out as a lover of uncontained & immortal beauty”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“& I’m waking up lonely with arms that can’t do what they know to do, palms shaped like empty rosebuds.”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“People are acting crazy in February because their lives are nothing but marks & lines.”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“There was a tree yesterday that might have held thousands of leaves or snowflakes or tears or birds, or thousands of years of trying to be better.”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“Remember last winter & paper snowflakes in the windows. Remember snowflakes not melting in the sunshine. The Mondayness of this light. I still get distracted by clouds; almost two weeks now & my morning eyes are stifled by cloud in this present Octoberousness. There are things that only happen once happening all the time! Someone held a bird & said to me “For you.” Someone made a bird out of paper so it wouldn’t disappear in the heat. I’m writing every poem to you.”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“Say one thing over & over into the atmosphere & you’ll convince the stars to believe it.”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever

“Sometimes the sun sets

& things that shouldn’t be
golden are golden. There’s a field.
There’s a lake & a tree & a bird.

Sometimes I am goldenrod crowding a field.
Leaves fall from my branches
but I try to hold on.”
― Nate Pritts, Right Now More Than Ever