“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.  The chasm is never completely bridged.  We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ”

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“A writer’s mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.”

– Ethel Wilson –

Category: poetrysongs

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“It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. ”

– Thomas Carlyle –

Category: poetrysongs

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“The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.”

– James Robertson –

Category: Freedom

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“A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them. ”

– Leonard Louis Levinson –

Category: poetrysongs

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“Nursing is an art:  and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead… Continue reading →

“Those of us who consider ourselves to be somehow involved in the birthing of a new age, should discover Gaia as well. The idea of Gaia may facilitate the task of converting destructive human activities to constructive and cooperative behavior.… Continue reading →

“Humankind has not woven the web of life.  We are but one thread within it.  Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.  All things are bound together.  All things connect. ”

– Chief Seattle –

Category: Prayers

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“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.  Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn… Continue reading →

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more.”

– Lord Byron –

Category: Music

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