“Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!”
Source : Thomas YALDEN (1833). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Yalden: to which is Prefixed, a Biographical Sketch of the Author, by the Editor. Magnet Edition”, p.5
“Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.”
“but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.”
“Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.”
Source : Interview withMax Blagg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008. 
“It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.”
Source : "The Literary Life". Book by Anatole France, 1888-1892.
“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Activist
Emily Dickinson
Poet
Henry David Thoreau
Author
Herman Melville
Novelist
Margaret Fuller
Journalist
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Novelist
Ralph Ellison
Novelist
Walt Whitman
Poet
