Kira Lum (Lumpyplume)

“Girl don’t you know yet that you don’t never give up on love? Don’t you know you has in you the pulse of winds? The noise of dragonflies?”
― Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti

“[I]f the wave practices meditation and realizes she is water, she can collapse and tumble with joy. She may die as a wave, but she will always be alive as water.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology

“When midnight hushed the Earth, and lonely on the rooftops the night owls seemed to lament in melancholy notes, prolonged to a doleful cry, and then besides the riddling words of seers in ancient days, foreboding sayings made her thrill with fear.”
― Virgil (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)