Kitty > Kitty's Quotes

“How weightless
words are when nothing will do.”
― Philip Levine, Breath

“you will never catch up.
Walk around feeling like a leaf
know you could tumble at any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.

--The Art of Disappearing”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

“Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.”
― Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...”
― Colette

“If I am not crushed
by cliff slide
I will become
the summit”
― Karla Linn Merrifield, Lithic Scatter and Other Poems

“The size of the place that one becomes
a member of is limited only by
the size of one’s heart.”
― Gary Snyder