“Sometimes Something Good Has To Be Subtracted From Your Lives Before Something Better Can Take Its

Alice Notley, from In the Pines

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“You will love again the stranger who was your self.”

— Derek Walcott

So long ago, I don’t remember.

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“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

— Marcus Aurelius