“I think I am the kind of person
that people fall in love with
too quickly
And I dont mean to complain
because it is wonderful to be loved
but I am also the kind of person
that people walk way from
when they realize
the beautiful pool of water
that they wandered into
is actually an ocean
with too many questions
I wish my company
didn't make people feel
like they're drowning
mystery draws them in
then mystery makes them leave.”
Whitney Hanson, Home
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"Somewhere at the beginning of time I think your heart was a part of mine. Two souls fallen from the same star found two different people far apart and all my life I have looked for you and all yours you have been searching to. Today we met for a second first time but on the ground instead of the sky, I didn't know it, I couldn't see that meeting you was meeting the missing part of me."
— Whitney Hanson
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I don't want to be rescued I just want someone to notice that I am trapped Their is a silence in me absolute and inconvenient
—Whitney Hanson & Jack Gilbert
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I imagine Laurent saying this to Damen (or thinking it).
Poem by Whitney Hanson, in harmony
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I no longer want to be human. I wanna be a flower. I want to be a tiny flower growing in the cracks on a wall, a flower in a bouquet. The flower you preserved in your favourite book.
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you've just come in from a rainstorm
you can't expect to be
immediately dry warm and comfortable
but you can do the little things
take off the heavy clothing
turn on the coffee pot
wrap yourself in a blanket
one small thing at a time
~healing is a process
— Whitney Hanson, "you've just come in from a rainstorm" in Salt + Stone (self published 2020)
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- Whitney Hanson, Book: “Home”, Instagram account: “whitneyhansonpoetry”
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"I fell in love with you in the fall and perhaps that was my mistake, I failed to realize that fall leads to winter and winter is lonely and cold."
"Next time can we fall in love in the spring?"
— Whitney Hanson
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They say that sometimes
love starts with a spark.
And that might be true,
but if I were to wish you a love,
I wouldn't wish fire for you.
You see, fire is powerful.
It burns bright and then it's gone.
It's beautiful and warm,
but it doesn't last long.
So instead of wishing you a love that burns,
I wish you a love like a river twists and turns.
It changes and it flows,
It is powerful and free.
But it consistently finds its way back to the sea.
And so like the water,
I hope your love is ever growing, ever changing.
I hope your love is powerful and free,
And may you always find eachother,
Like a river finds the sea.
"A wedding poem" - Whitney Hanson
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