Matter Quotes by Emily Susan Rapp

Although I don't think love is quantitatively measured - in other words, I don't believe that you "don't know love until you have a…

— Emily Susan Rapp

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms…

— Emily Susan Rapp

I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find…

— Emily Susan Rapp

The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I do believe that great love brings with it the terror and possibility of great loss.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything.…

— Emily Susan Rapp

Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops…

— Emily Susan Rapp

I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.

— Emily Susan Rapp

I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more motivated to…

— Emily Susan Rapp

People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

— Emily Susan Rapp