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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When something explodes, / Turn exactly opposite from it and see what there is to see. / The loud will take care of itself, and everyone will be able to say / What happened in that direction. But who is looking / The other way? — Alberto Ríos

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing / and rightdoing there is a field. / I’ll meet you there. — Rumi

Thanks be / to god—again— / for extractable elements / which are not / carriers of pain, / for this periodic / table at which / the self-taught / salvagers disassemble / the unthinkable / to the unthought. — Kay Ryan

Unborn kittens wait for news / from the water / in their mother’s belly. — Mykyta Ryzhykh