Quote Quote from “Letter To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)” If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Emily Dickinson
Quote Quote from “Personal Letter (1872)” A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson
Quote Quote from “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (2010)” Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. Maya Angelou
Quote Quote from “On Listening To Lectures” The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. - Plutarch
Quote Quote from “The Diary Of A Young Girl (1942 - 1944)” We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same. Anne Frank
Quote Quote from “Give! (1944)” How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! Anne Frank
Quote Quote from “Boy: Tales Of Childhood” Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great. Roald Dahl
Poetry Quote Quote from “Wisdom's Woods” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/108268 I know where I'm going. I'm taking longer than I should, but these setbacks are not failures, only detours through Wisdom's Woods. Aaron Stone
Poetry Quote Quote from “Take A Step Back” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/107162 Take a step back, learn how to breathe. Take a step back and just be. Aaron Stone
