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