Where It All Begins

“Without imagination, we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts.”
-Rita Dove

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You Don’t Own Me

“Just let me be myself, that’s all I ask of you.”
-Lesley Gore

This Much and More

If my lover were a comet
Hung in air,
I would braid my leaping body
In his hair.

Graven Images

“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.”

-Christian Dior

Moments of Clarity

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”

— Steve Maraboli

The Past Is Never Dead

“It’s not even past.”
-William Faulkner