Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
— Ray Bradbury
RIP Ray Bradbury :(
“Everything is over. Everything that I called living is over. I’m very, very much alone. I don’t believe in heaven or hell or any of those things. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They’re nowhere. I know they’re nowhere and they don’t exist, but if nowhere means that’s where they are, that’s where I want to be.” - Maurice Sendak
lick your cigarette and kiss me: Do you have readers who come up to you and say, “You’ve changed my life?” »
Adrienne Rich: Yes, I do, and I usually say to them—which I also believe to be true—“You were changing your life and you read my book or you read that poem at a point where you could use it, and I’m really glad, but you were changing your life.” Somehow when we are in the…
First heard of her when I was reading Sylvia Plath’s journals. Sylvia loved her, thought Adrienne was the greater poet.
RIP Adrienne Rich. I have always loved reading you.
(Source: english.illinois.edu, via liomcat)
