“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
–Simone Weil, Gravity and Grouse
“I have to protect myself from the toxicity of this culture.”
–Kate Braverman, quoted in “From the Tropic of L.A.”
“The moment of change is the only poem.”
–Adrienne Rich, “Images for Godard”
“A poet is a state of mind.”
–Virginia Moore, “Saint Teresa”
“I am like an owl in the desert.”
–Anne Clifford, Diary entry, May 1616
“There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
–William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“In delay there lies no plenty.”
–William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“Everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.”
–Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
“Live from your own centre.”
–Joseph Campbell
“Irony is wasted on the stupid.”
–Oscar Wilde
“I dwell in possibility.”
–Emily Dickinson
“I dream therefore I become.”
–Cheryl Grossman