The present changes the past.
Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
— Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
- I Wanted My Life To CloseI wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close… — Mary Oliver
- Destroy Your Reputation.Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. —Rumi
- Lovers Don’t Finally Meet Somewhere. They’re In Each Other All AlongArtistic experience lies so incredibly close to that of sex, to its pain and its ecstasy, that the two manifestations are indeed but different forms of one and the same yearning… Read more: Lovers Don’t Finally Meet Somewhere. They’re In Each Other All Along
- Am Searching For A Secret Recipeam searching for a secret recipe… so that drinking it my house shriveled up and barren may be revived — Jesse Arlen from poem hieroglyph Secret Potion
- I Say Take Them Back But You Never DoI don’t mind them well.I haven’t got the knackof kindly minding.I say Take them backbut you never do. — Marie Ponsot from poem Old Mama Saturday