"I was aborted and did not die."

-- Gianna Jessen

“I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.”
“The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.”
“I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.”
“What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.”

Source : Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.93, Copper Canyon Press
“Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.”
“Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."”
“Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.”
“Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.”

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