Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy’d the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done; […]

∆ Matthew Arnold, excerpt from “Empedocles on Etna”

speaking is not the same as thinking.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

computers are stupid but eminently logical machines

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

If I lived here I’d be home now

a dense fabric of words, drawn with intense concentration, left to be obliterated underfoot.

I loved them immediately when I saw them. Like, deeply. Electric. Can’t explain it.

Let me hold your heart like a flower.

∆ Anne Sexton, Rapunzel