It isn't ever
delicate
to live.
—Kay Ryan, "Spiderweb"

This isn't for everyone, clearly. And I get why it wouldn't be, but this looks incredible.

For too long, those of us on the left have refused to engage in politics as the rightists do: free of conscience and dead-heartedly. Maybe it's just because we're good people or because we're a tad squeamish or, less generously, because we're just not any good at it

Draw, Antonio, draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time.

—Michelangelo, in a note to his apprentice

Any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

—George Orwell

The divine lives within the husk of mortal things.

—Simon Schama

You keep waiting for that person for whom you voted to emerge, but then you start to realize that he's not, that he's just not.

He's done the math, and he's figured out the safest path.

It's embarrassing to want so much, and to expect so much from music, except sometimes it happens.

—Bruce Springsteen