'Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?' - Mary Oliver

'Tree you are, / Moss you are, / You are violets with wind about them. / A child -- so high -- you are, / And all this is folly to the world.' - Ezra Pound

'How could she explain that coming from deep within herself it was already a victory to be half alive?' - Clarice Lispector

'You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.' - Megan Chance

'Most days I am a museum of things I want to forget.' - E. E. Scott

'Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the color gold.' - Victoria Erickson

'She facinates me because, radiantly young, she still embodies all the melancholy of autumn. She has learned to cherish with mournful tenderness a past she dares not remember.' - Renée Vivien

'To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.' - Hannah Kent

'I am not what you supposed, but far different.' - Walt Whitman

'My heart aches in corners I did not know existed.' - Najwa Zebian

'Don't be afraid to suffer; return that heaviness to the earth's own weight; heavy are the mountains, heavy are the seas.' - Rainer Maria Rilke

'I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hours to consider what has happened to my world.' - Virginia Woolf

'The rest of us can only run away from time to time, and however much we pretend to be free, we know it is only for a little while -- our hands and our feed are tied.' - Daphné du Maurier

'It has been a very rare thing to have known you, very strange and wonderful.' - F. Scott Fitzgerald

'I fear you close by; I love you far away.' - Friedrich Nietzsche

'The truth is that I am still lost in grief.' - Renée Vivien

'She was terrified of everything and terrified to show it.' - David Foster Wallace

'It was not one man that she needed, but through one man a view of other things, a sensation of other ways of being, she wished to feel herself attached to the world.' - Margaret Drabble

'I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, 'crazy'. But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.' - Charles Bukowski

'I'm tired, can't think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.' - Franz Kafka

'I would endure ages of pain to hear one tone of your voice strike on my ear.' - Mary Shelley

'You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.' - E.B. White

'inhale -- try not to remember how desperate / you've been for touch -- yes ignore it -- that/ hitch of your heart.' - Brionne Janae

'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do.' - F. Scott Fitzgerald

'Even before I was touched, I belonged to you; you had only to look at me.' - Louise Glück

'I do not remember many things, and for all those things I do not remember, I am grateful, because the things I do remember hurt me enough.' - Viet Thanh Nguyen

'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.' - W. B. Yeats

'So if you love me, love me everywhere.' - H.D.

'Memory, wherever you touch it, brings pain.' - George Seferis

'This summer night deep down under the stars was all the things you would ever feel or see or hear in your life, drowning you at once.' - Ray Bradbury

'We are learning to live again, and, / for many of us / it is for the first time.' - Emilie Autumn