“If you are not the free person you want to be, you must find a place to tell the truth about that.” ~Anne Carson
Florence, Italy
“Without tenderness, we are all in hell.” ~Adrienne Rich
Paris, France
“What we don’t say/we carry in our suitcases, coat pockets, our/nostrils.” ~Ilya Kaminsky
St. Louis, Missouri
“We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking it we learn to be human.” ~Hannah Arendt
Rome, Italy
“I hope you summon your courage and you invite your demons to tea, and you learn to listen to all their stories.” ~Nikita Gill
St. Louis, Missouri
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” ~John Muir
St. Louis, Missouri
“The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can’t understand.” ~Elena Ferrante
St. Louis, Missouri
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ~Maya Angelou
Florence, Italy
“An empty space is a space for questions, not for answers. And what we don’t know is infinite.” ~Jenny Erpenbeck
St. Louis, Missouri
“But to be oneself, one must first waste a little time.” ~Elizabeth Bowen