“No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.” - Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
“And it is also the only reward for my work: to feel what I have written is like the back of a cat as it is being petted, with sparks and an arching in cadence.” - Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
“Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it.” - Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
