-Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Vera Zvagyntseva c. February 1920
"I so often remain silent. I am like a wolf in his den hiding my grief, it’s hard on people."
"The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you’re supposed to go up and down when you’re supposed to go down. When you’re supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you’re supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there’s no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness."
-Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
"Teach me to hear mermaids singing,"
-John Donne, from The Selected Poems; “Song: Go Catch A Falling Star,”