#life

"The Written Word The only thing I hold dearer than myself(and my moms, yo') ~is the written word.I'd give my life for that bitch, (yo'.)"

"sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!"

"A Loaf of Challah Haiku A loaf of challah,a bottle of Rashi wine...For everything else there's Simply Manischewitz."

"Valentine's Day 1 [10w] Valentine's Day affirms the promise that love can be sustained."

"Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements."

"Why We Need Smart People [10w] We need smart people to call other smart people morons."

"Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power."

"Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly."

"Ruminating Poetry A poem should be eaten in one sittingbut regurgitated often like a ruminant's food."

"It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back."

"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between."

"ESL New immigrantswho've taken ESL (English as a Second Language),will always misunderstand sarcasm ~but those fuckers sure as shit enjoy the prices at Walmart."

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."

"We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this."

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest."

"Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex."

"When nothing is sure, everything is possible."

"Life is not kind. Who are you trying to kid, Kendall?” He sighed."