Quotes

“Never let your heart open with the spring flowers: An inch of longing is an inch of ash.”
— Li Shangyin

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
— Sarah Williams, The Old Astronomer

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was always just red.”
— Kait Rokowski

“I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”
— Sylvia Plath

“In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing.”
— Mark Strand

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
— Ocean Vuong

Poems

Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.…

~ Emily Dickinson

as if everything that exists, 
aromas, light, metals, 
were little boats 
that sail 
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.…

~ Pablo Neruda

Do not stand at my grave and weep 
I am not there. I do not sleep. 
I am a thousand winds that blow. 
I am the diamond glints on snow.…

~ Mary Elizabeth Frye