"It pleases me, loving rivers.
Loving them all the way back
to their source.
Loving everything that increases me."
Raymond Carver, Where Water Comes Together with Other Water
"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"All my favorite singers couldn't sing."
David Berman, We Are Real
"Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come."
Rumi
"The memory was more real than the experience."
James Welch, Winter in the Blood
"Behold the gates of mercy, in arbitrary space.
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace."
Leonard Cohen, Come Healing
"A work of art is good if it is arisen out of necessity."
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Are my boots old? Is my coat torn?
Am I no longer young and still not half-perfect? Let me
keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished."
Mary Oliver, Messenger