For more than a decade, I’ve maintained a list of quotes I like by poets, writers, and thinkers I find interesting. This post is part of that series. All posts in the series are organized alphabetically.

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What matters is the individual movements that you can have with other people and maybe, by this strange magic, you write these little characters in black and white on a page and someone picks it up somewhere and they feel heard or understood or comforted. Even if the poem is about the darkest thing in the world, someone else felt that. You know, you can talk in these big terms. All I can do is speak for myself and say my life has been literally saved by some of those moments. — Joseph Fasano

The small one, / the one joined with the sky, / the one we carried, / the one we sang / into the blue, into the black — Greg Field

You’re not a citizen of language or memory, / but I am. — Kathleen Flenniken

Subtle ways to sign our names / in concealed, sheltered places / where those who search will find them. — Meg Freer