“If You Care About Something You Have To Protect It – If You’re Lucky Enough To Find A Way Of Life

J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

“—I have a childlike heart”

— Sappho, Fragments (tr. by Mary Barnard)

“I bloom within myself, inwardly,”

— Gabriela Mistral, from Selected Prose & Prose Poems; “The Fig,”

“I wore my fairy dress of tulle and danced until midnight.”

— Anais Nin

Kim Addonizio, from "'Round Midnight'", What Is This Thing Called Love

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

“Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Humiliated and Insulted