It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.

When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.

Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.