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A natural history of love

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. // E.B. White

The unfed mind devours itself. //Gore Vidal

ENDANGERED SPECIES

When those superior beings
from outer space arrive
to guide or chide us
or to take from us
or save from us
our battered planet -
will they (I wonder while
watching you smile)
appreciate how excellent
humankind can be?

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living. // Jonathan Safran Foer

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. // F. Scott Fitzgerald

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater. // J.R.R. Tolkien 

We lose ourselves in the things we love. We find ourselves there too. // Kristen Martz