“The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour And each pulse, each throb each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words ‘You are still alive’ …So act like it”— Rudy Francisco, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“I’ve been trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following.”— Rudy Francisco, youtube.com
“Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love. To lose myself for a while.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Behind my face stretches a world, no more lived in, perhaps, than the moon.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”— W. H. Auden, amazon.com
“Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.”— Marjorie Celona, amazon.com
“I’m lost in my own mind, a poem that never ends, composed of things that aren’t blessed.”— Young Senshi, wnq-writers.com
“Love, love, love, love is like sunshine: Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there.”— Andrea Gibson, amazon.com
“You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.”— E. E Cummings, amazon.com
“I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over.”— Robert Frost, amazon.com