
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
–Virginia Woolf
Poet, writer, editor, teacher, blogger, mentor, meditator.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
–Virginia Woolf
The trick is not how much pain you feel, but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
–Erica Jong
Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings
–Anne Sexton
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
–Sharon Salzberg
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
–Sharon Olds
Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.
–May Sarton
It’s a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little.
–Ellen Bass
Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)
is the human voice,
and are we not of interest to each other?
Elizabeth Alexander
Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest…It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I suggest that the poets don’t hide. That they scream. That they confront. That they bellow and resist.
–Patricia Smith