“A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”– W. H. Auden Related Quotes “This is the moment I realize that our traumas never really go away. They live inside of us, in the deepest darkest pits of our own tiny hells. Cocked and loaded, waiting for someone to come along and pull the trigger.”— A. Zavarelli “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca “Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve”— Charles Baudelaire