and still, on the days I want
to be alive the sunlight leaves me stunned like a kiss
from someone who has already twirled away by the time my eyes open
on the days I want to be alive I tell myself I deserve a marching band . . .
—Hanif Abdurraqib from poem I Was Told the Sunlight Was a Cure
- To Love Is Not About MergingTo love is not about merging. It is a noble calling for the individual to ripen, to differentiate, to become a world in oneself in response to another. It is a great, immodest call that singles out a person and summons them beyond all boundaries. Only in this sense may we use the love that… Read more: To Love Is Not About Merging
- Infinite Distances Continue To Exist Even Between The Closest Of Human BeingsOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. — Rainer Maria Rilke… Read more: Infinite Distances Continue To Exist Even Between The Closest Of Human Beings
- To Be Loved Means To Be ConsumedTo be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure. – -Rilke and Benvenuta: an Intimate Correspondence In marriage, the point is not to achieve a rapid union by tearing down and toppling all boundaries. Rather, in… Read more: To Be Loved Means To Be Consumed
- I Have Done Nothing All Summer But Wait For Myself To Be Myself AgainI have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again. — Georgia O’Keeffe I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way… things I had no words for. — Georgia O’Keeffe To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage. —… Read more: I Have Done Nothing All Summer But Wait For Myself To Be Myself Again
- Empathy Is A GiftEmpathy is a gift But Darkness is a choice. —Unknown
