It doesn't matter what you're saying if you come from an honest place.
Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?
A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.
Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.
I dont ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.