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One where achievement isn’t the default, and where smallness isn’t a failure to grow, but a new way to define what greatness really looks like.

The most divine relationships constitute a messy, awkward collaboration between two savage souls who dare to ask for more from this world.

That return, to me, is important, and that that exists is a reason for me to do the work that I’m doing. I can’t really put words to it. It’s just a feeling, but it’s there. It makes me want to create, and that’s the thing that matters to me most on the planet is encountering art that makes me want to make art.

He said that what’s wonderful about poetry is that it tells you things that you’ve already known.

I tend to write to people who are, even when they’re at their happiest, there’s some kind of underpinning that might be a little bit pensive or sad.

Because the telling is alive, shaped by whatever grief or joy we've carried into that particular afternoon.

They understood that repetition wasn't redundancy, but ritual! And each telling was both the same story and a completely new experience, shaped by the particular moment, the specific voices, the quality of attention brought to bear.

how do I let my aversions/curiosities actually take form, instead of just orbiting around them abstractly? I want to feel rooted, but with flexible limbs—like a sturdy tree!