the thoughts of youth are long long thoughts.

the universe has not yet beckoned.
george elliot

its a summer night and everything flung wide open.
henry miller

who am i but my own past?
katherine mansfield

to stare down the years.
katherine mansfiled.

(the thoughts of youth are long long thoughts)
(i am tired. i am a genius. you are tired. you are a genius!)

that a life this mess can be!
jay farrar

Inaudible dreams!
coleridge

a child said, what is the grass
walt whitman

but: light glistens off my teary face.
phil elvrum

I see a wild civility,-
robert herrick

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.
-Henri Matisse

It loved to happen.
-Marcus Aurelius

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself." - D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English Author

not all those who wander are lost.
J.R. Tolkein

"We are unusual and tragic and alive."
— Dave Eggers

"I see colors like you hear jet planes."
— Dave Eggers (How We Are Hungry

"We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils."
— Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius)