More than anything else it was this feeling that captivated me—the feeling that, literally, made me captive.
I Felt Important
Saved by Britt Gage
More than anything else it was this feeling that captivated me—the feeling that, literally, made me captive.
I wait for the moments when another tells me ”it’s like nothing else.”
Gladly, do I fall headlong into those territories that steal a breath and give back awe.
Gladly, do I fall headlong into those territories that steal a breath and give back awe.
Link
Finally, here was the world's constantly broken promise of transcendence, the cosmic wonder I'd chased impatiently ever since I was a child, rounding every corner with an eager smile that faltered just as quickly. I'd been waiting my whole life to find a feeling this big. It was a religious conversion.
Jayson Greene • UnWorld
After years of feeling that way, it was strange to wake up and read a poem every day, and to feel I had grown intimate with it, tender with its idiosyncrasies of form and rhythm. For four or five weeks this went on, the poem becoming as falsely natural as a piercing, a foreign body fitted snugly into the internal and external material of my life.
Sarah Chihaya • Bibliophobia
I sometimes literally burst into tears when I read certain essays or papers now just because it feels so special to have been able to gain access to this part of myself, a part that craves knowledge for its own sake and finds a sometimes-euphoric pleasure in the act of seeking it
rayne fisher-quann • Poser ethics
of attention is an implicitly erotic state, and I spread my exotic wings under the students’ bland collective gaze.