Keep the Machine

I’m Sara, 24 years old and from Denmark. I am small, but mighty. I love kicking up dust and falling in love with folks, alcohol, wise people I can learn from, Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder, tattoos, words that are sweet like hummingbird, Pablo Neruda, redheads, the surface, just below the surface, Ronja Röverdatter, feminine Ryan Gosling, freckles, smoking, secrets, the joy of not being sold anything, feminism, pop culture, poetry, wine, imagination, all the ways we can run, exit signs, red lipstick, waiting for the sun, second chances, silhouettes, rain, Alice in Wonderland, being in love, old Finnish people with things on their heads, dancing, being home alone, orgasms, that seasons are changing, spring, rocking chairs, Romeo and Juliet, the people we used to be, eating in bed, daydreaming, sunsets, islands, Atmosphere, writing, being alone, being with lots of people, Beirut, happy endings.  I like people who write, say og think things like: "Keep your coins, I want change"  - Banksy   "Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway.” So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look." - Marina Abramović   "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin  "Together we are soft, weak, young. Depending on each other too much. Together we live in an unreal world. And we live in the outside world, only because we have this one, ours, to fall back on.” Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love” -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)   "April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” - T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land  "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."  ~Mary Oliver  "I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”  - Edgar Allan Poe  "And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.” - Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler  "Only when the last tree  Has been cut down  And the last river  Has dried to a trickle  Will man finally realize  That we cannot eat money  And reciting old proverbs  Makes you sound like a twat"  - Banksy   "Good things in life aren’t things"  -Grafitti statements   "Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” - Homer, The Iliad  "Vi tindrer vi raser  Vi gløder vi  Slår os ikke ned  Falder ikke til ro  Vi er gale  Og fine  Skøre som glas  Som parfumeret papir  Vist  Vi mister  Hinanden  Og kan ikke klare det  Og kommer aldrig over det  Fortabes  Begraves  I fremmede byer  Men husk vi er stadig i live  Vist Er vi det"  - Under byen   "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth will become a revolutionary act" - George Orwell  "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita   "But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me"  - Pablo Neruda   "I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them."  - Andy Warhol   "I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.” - Albert Camus, The Fall  "I am a feminist. I’ve been female for a long time now. I’d be stupid not to be on my own side." - Maya Angelou  “I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief  "If it hurts, you'll always remember." - Adam Sackler, Girls   "Happiness only real when shared." - Chris McCandless "Desire Is the kind of thing That eats you And leaves you starving" - Nayyirah Waheed  "Det kan være svært at føle.
 Altså lad os gøre det.
 At tænke 
kan vi sgu altid, 
det er så let
 ... 

ingen celle ville nogensinde 
under nogen form 
blive tabt 
af universet 
jeg vil aldrig glemme dig.

 Jeg elsker dig helt ind i stjernernes knæ." - Michael Strunge  "You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired. You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and you're trying not to tell him that you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for." - Richard Siken, Crush  "To my daughter I will say, 'when the men come set yourself on fire'" - Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth  "I call on you I clasp your hands I kiss the ground under your feet And I say ”I offer my life for yours” I give you the light of my eyes as a present And the warmth of my heart The tragedy I live is that I share your tragedies" - Palestinian song  "If you will suck my soul, I will lick your funky emotions."  - De La Soul, Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa   “Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel." ― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her  "There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong." - Rob Thomas  "If you are my friend, help me,
 To leave you.
 If you are my lover, help me,
 So that I can be cured of you.
 If I knew that love was so dangerous,
 I would not have loved.
 If I knew that the sea was so deep,
 I would not have set sail. 
If I knew my end, 
I would not have begun. I desire you, so teach me
 Not to desire.
 Teach me 
How to cut the roots of love from the depths. 
Teach me 
How tears perish in eyes.
 Teach me
 How the heart dies and yearning ends. If you are a prophet, free me
 From this enchantment,
 From this disbelief.
 Your love is blasphemy, so cleanse me 
From this disbelief. If you are strong, pull me out
 Of this open sea.
 I do not know the art of swimming.
The blue waves of your eyes,
 Drag me to the depths.
 I do not have experience 
In love, and I do not have a boat. If I am precious to you, take me in your hands. 
I love from head to toe.
 I am breathing under the water. 
I am drowning,
 Drowning. 
Drowning" - Letter From Under the Sea - Nizar Qabbani "Selvom du stadig er smuk er det alligevel på en anden måde end dengang vi dansede i regnen og det skrøbelige kun var en del af din skønhed der sad som en syl i mit øje. Men i dag hvor vi to er mødtes tilfældigt i Sølvgadekrydsets styrtende lys og du står i din dejlige kjole er skønheden omvendt kun en del af din skrøbelighed der ridser mit blik som et glasskår" - Søren Ulrik Thomsen, Rystet Spejl  THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED IN ALL SINCERITY TO EVERY LOVER OF THE TRUE AND BEAUTIFUL - Josh Abe, Oh Pioneer