“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.” ~James Thurber
Malibu, California
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” ~Annie Dillard
Laguna Beach, California
“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.” ~Emily Dickinson
Aspen, Colorado
“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love.” ~Thornton Wilder
St. Louis, MO
“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
Florence, Italy
“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
Santa Monica, California
“The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.” ~Franz Wright
Paris, France
“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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