wantTo QUOTES

1 " Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said,
Are innocent and fathomless
And when I look at them I see
That they are not aware of me
And oh I find and oh I bless
A comfort in this emptiness
They only see me when they want
To pounce upon me at the hunt;
But in the tame variety
There couches an anxiety
As if they yearned, yet knew not what
They yearned for, nor they yearned for not.
And so my dog would look at me
And it was pitiful to see
Such love and such dependency.
The human heart is not at ease
With animals that look like these. "

― Stevie Smith

2 " Marvel at how she,
the patient gardener, the bringer of sleep,
she who draws the bath and lights the candles,
she who made you someone who could make
himself into someone, she made you want
to live more than anything else, and now
she makes you want to leave the world
because you have seen it. "

― Neil Hilborn , Our Numbered Days

3 " Arjuro made a scoffing sound. ‘You think Lumatere will invade because of you? Are you that important?’

Froi looked away. ‘Isaboe would invade if you kidnapped a servant, let alone a friend.’

‘Isaboe? We’re on first-name terms with the Queen of Lumatere, are we?’ Gargarin asked.

Froi found himself bristling. ‘What? Do you think I’m some cutthroat for hire who they found hanging around the palace walls with the words “I want
to kill a Charynite King” tattooed on my arse? "

― Melina Marchetta , Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)

4 " People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I want
to vomit—and suddenly, there it is: the Nausea "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , Nausea

5 " Be you.That, my friend,is the change you wantto become in the world. "

6 " When you were strung out

and I kissed you
I imagined your mouth

a mound of cocaine,
inhaling your breath

like powder as I pushed
into you and you pulled

me with your bruised thighs.
Some nights we fucked so

slowly I dissolved
like a Quaalude in a glass

of vodka, and you drank
me down. We kept the room dark,

so we could not see
each other with our eyes

rolled back - or was it
because we did not want

to see ourselves.
It's taken me too long to think

of that, the way we never
thought the other would go,

and then one night
I woke up

sober
and yes,

still there. "

― Sean Thomas Dougherty , Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line

7 " it's not his body
that changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
he wants to
be a little
weaker. i don't
understand.
i say 'thinner?'
and he says
'no, i want
to be stronger
in a different
way.' not
because of me,
but for me. "

― David Levithan , The Realm of Possibility

8 " EVENTIDE

Dark and light
striking
each other,
vividly etching wild colors
through the horizon.

The charm of sunset
makes me want
to scurry home. "

―

9 " And sometimes if I want
To imagine I’m a lamb
(Or a whole flock
Spreading out all over the hillside
So I can be a lot of happy things at the same time),
It’s only because I feel what I write at sunset,
Or when a cloud passes its hand over the light
And silence runs over the grass outside.
When I sit and write poems
Or, walking along the roads or pathways,
I write poems on the paper in my thoughts,
I feel a staff in my hand
And see my silhouette
On top of a knoll,
Looking after my flock and seeing my ideas,
Or looking after my ideas and seeing my flock,
With a silly smile like someone who doesn’t understand what somebody’s saying
But tries to pretend they do. "

― Alberto Caeiro , The Keeper of Sheep

10 " First, it is essential to determine precisely what you want
to achieve. Just wanting to be “successful” is too general. "

― Derric Yuh Ndim

11 " Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons
off the tree! I don't want
to forget who I am, what has burned in me,
and hang limp and clean, an empty dress - "

― Denise Levertov

12 " ..the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It
becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want
to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It’s mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its
arms and not wake up for a long, long time. "

― Stephanie Perkins

13 " The present moment isinseparable from life.I want the present moment to be my friend. I wantto be friends with anyoneI encounter now.I want to be friends with Life.This is a decision I am willing to make again and again.It's one I want to and willmake every chance I get.Ask: what's my relationship withLife? "

14 " There is a world of difference between the experience
of 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basic
biological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us want
to live. "

― Antonella Gambotto-Burke , Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution