What are the ways you dream of being?

Where did love begin? What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea?

∆ Jeanette Winterson, from Lighthousekeeping

Don’t be afraid to suffer—take your heaviness / and give it back to the earth’s own weight / the mountains are heavy, the oceans are heavy.

∆ Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Poetry of Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

We could drive hundreds of miles
At night through dandelions.

∆ John Ashbery, from "They Dream Only of America"

Part of being is doing

— Malarkoi, Alex Pheby

Love is so embarrassing. I bled in your bed. I’m sorry. I have built you a shore with all my best words & still, the waves.

∆ Claire Schwartz, from Bound

Vulnerability, at its heart, is the willingness to show up and be seen when you can’t control perception.

∆ Brené Brown on vulnerability