#james wright

So tell me, Elias. What are you afraid of?

Claude Monet said, “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” and Vincent Van Gogh said, “The way to know life is to love many things.” and “If I am worth something later, I am worth something now.” and Kurt Vonnegut said, “If this isn’t nice, I don't know what is.” and Fyodor Dostoevsky said, “Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.” and James Wright said, “God, sometimes I am so happy I don't know what to do with me.” and I am really working on this happiness. 

I’ve been thinking about how Elle Emerson said, “No one is watching. So why does it have to be beautiful? You in pain are no closer to god than you in the drive thru or you, checking your email, or you, holding your own hand.” and how James Wright said, “God, sometimes I think I’m so happy I don’t know what to do with myself.” and how Margaret Atwood said, “If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next- if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions- you’d be doomed. You’d be ruined as God.” and how Fyodor Dostoyevsky said, “To love someone means to see them as God intended them.” and how Andres Cerpa said, “I couldn’t draw my own face if God asked.”