i think you need love;

“Define loneliness? Yes. It’s what we can’t do for each other.”

“I get really angry at people who are mean to other people. Isn’t life hard enough without people making it worse for each other? I think the people who do, who set out to make others feel bad, feel bad and alone themselves and they don’t want to feel alone, so they make other people feel bad. So they’ll just feel bad but also maybe, not so alone.”

“I am going // to leave the country, and become / an impressive nightmare, just watch me.”

“You win a while and then it’s done / Your little winning streak”

Let the terrible  politicians practice / their terrible politics. At my kitchen table, all will be fed.

“I believe people are reading more poetry because we distrust the diatribe, the easy answer, the argument that holds only one note. Poetry makes its music from specificity and empathy. It speaks to the whole complex notion of what it means to be human.”

“You come home, make some tea, sit down in your armchair and all around there’s silence. Everyone decides for themselves whether that’s loneliness or freedom.”