​Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways. 

• - Glennon Doyle Melton 

​I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

• — Wallace Stevens

​the light a lovely gray
the rain a violin
concerto (Prokofiev’s No. 2 in D Major)
and I had books to read
— David Lehman

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
 

​Too much of anything is bad,
but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
— Mark Twain

​spring love--
the curtains breathe in,
and out    
— Kevin Bailey

​Call me and I’m at your side,
one wildflower behind my ear. Ask me
and I’ll slip out of this softness, the dress
a black cloud at my feet
- Saeed Jones 

​thin clothes
an imperceptible smile
forming
— Kala Ramesh

​This dewdrop world-
yet for dew drops
still, a dewdrop world
— Kobayashi Issa

​Let them see enough of the truth to make them believe you. 
— Armistead Maupin