“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Paris, France
Santa Barbara, California
“and may you in your innocence/sail through this to that.” ~Lucille Clifton
Laguna Beach, California
“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.” ~Wislawa Szymborksa
Beacon Hill, Boston
“The greatest happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” ~Victor Hugo
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
“Make the moment vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.” ~Martha Graham
Pacific Ocean, Santa Barbara
“Loneliness is still time spent with the world.” ~Ocean Vuong
Building Art, Nashville, TN
“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.” ~Louise Erdrich
Pumpkins, St. Louis
“When you live in a world/Well it gets in to who you thought you’d be/And now I laugh at how the world changed me/I think life chose me/After all ” ~Dar Williams
Pansy in the Rain, St. Louis
“You are the deep innerness of all things, the last word that can never be spoken.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France
“There are ways to be wounded and ways to survive those wounds, but no one can survive denying their own needs.” ~CJ Hauser