“…and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars”

“I am 23 and I am learning what it means to be an artist, for I am not an artist, because it takes life and a life lived well, to the limit, to see the patterns in storms, but I am 23 and I am learning. I am learning shame and solitude, forgiveness and goodbyes. I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leavers. It hurts to accept that it hurts and it hurts to learn how easy it is for people to not need other people. Or how easy it is to need other people but that you can never build a home in someone’s arms because they will let go one day, and you must build your own.”

“One of the things you could do with your time is to convert it into a treasure and that treasure is called solitude.”

“If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude.”

“It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value.”

“Solitude is the machine through which time can be converted into products.”

“The time of solitude is actually an opportunity to make time work for you.”

“Solitude time is a period when you actually turn your time into some treasure.”

“Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.”

“If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.”

“Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.”