Non-Utilitarian Living Quotes

“More than a father’s daughter,

more than husband’s spouse

your soul is here to know love,

your body yours to decide how and when

and with whom and under what circumstances

that happens. You owe nothing to no-one.



Your thoughts are more than parents

your morality greater than church

your nutrition more than food

your steps greater than toil,

your concerns are not whining

your fears are neither stupid nor vain

your heart is more than Mother

your value more than a face

your fingers more than service.”
― Marie Anzalone, Non-Utilitarian Living: Poems in English and Spanish

“I want to undress you forever:

unbutton every fear, unzip each

desire; strip you of all burdens;

slowly, each act an unveiling, a desire

to see you naked, to draw every



scar to my mouth, to know the

story of every small piece. To worship

each perfect imperfection, to feel

the water as it surges through you.

I make you a constant.”
― Marie Anzalone, Non-Utilitarian Living: Poems in English and Spanish

“Our landscapes are marked

by the presence of grand trees.

And what are trees,

but love stories written by terra firma

in praise of all the heavens offer?



There are hundreds of ways

to scribe your love story

to reach a Sublime Result.

Just ask the oak.



All 600 species.



III.

Our own story will not be written

in chronological order.

Love was never meant

to keep you in your comfort zone.

It was designed- to feed, challenge, grow,

and sustain you. To fracture you gently,

drown you in small increments.

Continental drift you into

Pure Consciousness.



And I am learning:

to have the patience

of geologic processes. My blood

turns to lava, my breath to ash,

my love to eons, to measures of time

and movement imperceptible

at most moments.”
― Marie Anzalone, Non-Utilitarian Living: Poems in English and Spanish