#quote feed

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”

“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”

“Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.”

“The flower replied: you fool! Do you imagine I blossom in order to be seen? I blossom for my own sake because it pleases me, not for the sake of others. My joy consists in my being and my blossoming.”

She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.