Poetry quotes
Just want to share some excerpts from 'All Candled Things' by Anne Carson in Economy of the Unlost (from my Poetry reader).

To witness the mortal flame, burning and burning down is a poet's work.

Every time a poet writes a poem he is asking the question, Do words hold good? And the answer has to be yes: it is the contrafactual condition upon which a poet's life depends.

Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the well of the heart.

Praise poetry addresses itself to an individual who has chosen to test the limits of human possibility and momentarily succeeded. His flame is burning very bright. Looking at it we feel both love and hate. Hate because he has surpassed us, love because his light falls on our hopes, enlarging them.

The fact is, God alone could have this privilege.
Man cannot but be bad

Uni was good today. I'm going to miss "this" when the semester ends. People graduating and leaving - but life comes in waves doesn't it?