Her Eyes Are Pure Stars, And Her Fingers, If They Touch You, Freeze You To The Bone.

To make something beautiful should be enough. It isn't. It should be.

Richard Siken, Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors

to want and to wonder are parallel actions

- Jessica Fisher, Anne Carson’s Stereoscopic Poetics

As far as words go, crying is louder and weeping is wetter.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

Blackhead and Sea, George Wesley Bellows, 1913

From the Wikipedia page about the Fermi Paradox: Given the high scientific probability for alien existence, why can we find no evidence of their existence whatsoever?

For, when what he knows as art is relegated to the museum and gallery, the unconquerable impulse towards experiences enjoyable in themselves finds such outlet as the daily environment provides.

- John Dewey, Art as Experience

Still he looked; still he paused. It is these pauses that are our undoing.

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost.

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

The first thing you ever did was cry.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

if the grief is unbearable is there another way to live with it that is not the same as bearing it?

- Judith Butler