from Eileen Myles:

I hope there’s mystery and poetry in your life—not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.

Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.

—Jorge Wagensberg

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larg

Cuando los botánicos recorren los bosques y los prados en busca de plantas, decimos que salen de excursión. Cuando lo hacen los escritores, esa excursión es por las metáforas, que también abundan en la tierra.

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.

-Bonnie Friedman

“Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.”

-Kevin Ashton