For more than a decade, I’ve maintained aFor two decades, 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. Some poets and writers have their own dedicated pages. 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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I think about all the women who want you more than me. / I think about yanking the necklaces from the girls’ throats, / unconcerned whether I break the clasps or the girl. — Shelby Vane

How we live like water: touching / a new tongue with no telling / what we’ve been through. — Ocean Vuong

I want to take care of our planet because I need a beautiful graveyard. — Ocean Vuong

Say autumn despite the green / in your eyes. Beauty despite / daylight. Say you’d kill for it. Unbreakable dawn / mounting in your throat. / My thrashing beneath you / like a sparrow stunned / with falling. — Ocean Vuong

To even write the word father / is to carve a portion of the day / out of a bomb-bright page. — Ocean Vuong