“The river stones are listening/because we have something to say.”
~Yusef Komunyakaa
Cherry Blossoms, Missouri Botanical Garden
“Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”
~Robert Frost
Arch, Vatican City
“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination . . .” ~Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Art Foundation, St. Louis
“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose oneself.”
~Soren Kierkegaard
Night Sky, St. Louis
“One has to know one’s buried truth in order to be able to live one’s life.”
~Dori Laub
Paris Sunset
“Beauty is all around you . . . The whole idea is being able to recognize it and pay attention to it, articulate it.” ~Robert Irwin
Roman Street
“What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else.” ~Fredrick Buechner
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
“We are the music-makers,/And we are the dreamers of dreams. . . ” ~Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Winter Greenery
“What we call the beginning is often the end/And to make an end is to make a beginning./The end is where we start from.” ~T.S. Eliot
Tuileries Garden, Paris
“It is in a dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.” ~Alain de Botton