Why yes, I am easily distracted by shiny things and mid-week holidays.
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“Poems are where voices can join together and sing in a voice more powerful than one. Poems mark a trail of identities; poems laid end to end are a map of the human voice.”
— Elizabeth Alexander
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On her way up, she paused several times to look back: below her she saw the towers and bridges, the saints were shaking their fists and lifting their stone eyes to the clouds. It was the most beautiful city in the world. —from The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
If you can love someone with your whole heart,
even one person, then there’s salvation in life.
Haruki Murakami
Contemporary Japanese Writer, from his novel 1Q84
Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.
Paulo Coehlo
Brazilian Lyricist, Novelist
Writing is the only thing that when I do it,
I don’t feel I should be doing something else.
Gloria Steinem
American Feminist, Journalist, and Activist
But don’t be satisfied with stories, how things
have gone with other. Unfold your own myth.
Rumi
13th-century Poet, Sufi Mystic
To write is to transform that inward gaze into words . . .
Orhan Pamuk
Turkish Novelist, Recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
Religious Sister and Missionary, Recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
