Healing Quotes and Poems
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
-Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary
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Healing Quote of the Day
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust
The Moment
Margaret Atwood The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, …
Lesson 1
Julie Hill Alger At least I’ve learned this much: Life doesn’t have to be all poetry and roses. Life can be bus rides, gritty sidewalks, electric bills, dishwashing, chapped lips, dull stubby pencils with the erasers chewed off, cheap radios played too loud, the rank smell of stale coffee yet still glow with the inner …
Healing Quote of the Day
We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That’s equally important as the tragedy. –Steve Perry (singer, songwriter, musician)
If There Was No Poetry
Tess Norton If there was no poetry then what would become of my fledgling thoughts unbaked as they are raw this mish-mash of words words words words I’ve barely stirred i have made them presentable readied them to be penned they all wait proudly showing their finest how versatile they can be wanting to be …
Healing Quote of the Day
It Doesn’t matter how many people tell you no. — Seattle Seahawks quarterback, Russell Wilson
Reading Simic
Thomas Pitre I tried balancing a bowl of hot oatmeal on my lap and reading his poems in my tired and worn, green chair. On the back cover of a collection, a reviewer wrote “Simic may end a poem with a kiss or a bludgeon.” The reader will never know. Blackjack Fresno Johnny sent me …
Healing Quote of the Day
It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you. — Tyler Perry Learn more about actor, director, producer and writer, Tyler Perry, on his website
Fishing in Winter
Ralph Burns A man staring at a small lake sees His father cast light line out over The willows. He’s forgotten his Father has been dead for two years And the lake is where a blue fog Rolls, and the sky could be, if it Were black or blue or white, The backdrop of all …