Louise Glück, From An Interview With Poet In Poets & Writers

Ace Double books from the late 50s and early 60s from my grandfather's collection.

each novel is doubled with the opposite cover.

“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out my ears, my eyes, my noseholes—everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!”

— — Audre Lorde, from “A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer,” The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (via lifeinpoetry)

“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via podencos)

I just learned there's a thing in ecosystem building called a Soft Landing where you plant lots of herbaceous flowers and other non-woody materials beneath a tree so that if a bug falls off a branch while pupating they will be caught and safe :)