"I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination."

-- Billy Collins

#Writing Quotes #Journey Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“It is important for women to do something about what they see.”

Source : Roma Tearne (2010). “Mosquito”, p.22, HarperCollins Canada
“Most of us have nicknames-annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you.”
“No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.”
“I don't know nothing about nothing.”

Source : "If You Come Softly". Book by Jacqueline Woodson. Chapter 8, p. 88, 1998.
“Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.”
“It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.”

Source : Rebecca West (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”
“I want people with epilepsy to know that there are ways in which they can play a role in their own recovery. It's all in how they approach what is happening and how they can use that as a catalyst for their own growth. If there's one thing that I've learned, it's that people are willing to embrace you if you share your story.”
“If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar.”

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