#hope

"Dull Poetry Dulls the Mind [10w] Poetry penetrates dullness when whetted on the stone of imagination."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

"I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope."

"Kaddish Kaddish for Mrs. Ginsbergis not Kaddish,For your mom raised a Buddhistand mine raised a Jew.You'll zazen for your loss,I'll daven for mine.I do not belittle your loss,your grief is no less than mine.But by abandoning your tribe, אלון,Who now will say Kaddish for you?"

"What is Love? [10w] Love is the stubborn desire to find permanencein impermanence."

"Gifts Never look a gift horse in the assor a donkey in the mouth."

"A-New-Year's-a-Comin' [10w] A new year is coming!Let's all make new mistakes!"

"There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt."

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."

"A Poem Must Have an Accomplice If you cannot bamboozle the reader into becoming a willing accomplice to your artifice and collusion the poem won't fly."

"Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."

"Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive. One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic..."

"Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it."

"Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open."

"O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento."

"Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless."

"The Cure [10w] Laughter, love and faith can cure 95% of all illnesses."

"Deadlines The only deadline I plan on missing is the one at the cemetery."

"In the Future [1]: (criminals) In the future we're going to find a wayto turn criminals into wordsand then place them in parentheses."

"Russian, Metafizicheskiy-poshlost This is the humorous metaphysical banality like watching Tolstoy's wife, Sophia, nag her husband about leaving borscht stains on the table linen. The resulting discombobulation totally messed up the ending of Anna Karenina."