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“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.” ~James Thurber

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” ~Annie Dillard

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.” ~Emily Dickinson

“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love.” ~Thornton Wilder

“Look at everything. Don’t close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.” ~John Cage

“The more I put grief into a poem, the more I am able to move freely through the world because I have named it, spoken it, and thrown it out into the sky.” ~Ada Limon

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“The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.” ~Franz Wright

“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke

“and may you in your innocence/sail through this to that.” ~Lucille Clifton

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.” ~Wislawa Szymborksa