On Poetry:

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

“It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.  The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.” – T.S. Eliot

On Love:

“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi

“Don’t worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.”
― Jason Evert

“For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of each others’ existence.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul.”
― Charles F. Glassman

“A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

On Creating:

Mary Oliver – “I think we’re creative all day long.  We have to have an appointment to have that work out on the page.  Because the creative part of us gets tired of waiting, or just gets tired.”