To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven’t in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

I see all things in this world as more beautiful than I, and I spin the details of their atoms in every paragraph and brushstroke.

Albums serve as paragraphs in an artist’s autobiography.