Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is a way of foolishness. Help them...

won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i...

Let no one keep you from your journey, no rabbi or priest, no mother who wants you to dig for treasures she misplaced, no father who...

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to...

Leave the dishes. Let the celery rot in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator and an earthen scum harden on the kitchen floor. Leave the...

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though...

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say...

if i decide not to choose myself i have disappointed all the women that came before me that did not choose themselves either -MAIA...

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the...

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there,...

My daughter: "I hope there's an animal somewhere that nobody has ever seen. And I hope nobody ever sees it." Being, whose flesh dissolves...

Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear in the ancient faith:...

How did I know where I was going beneath the shadow of your fingers? When the sky was a coat sleeve and all the rivers dried to paint....

When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone, no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark...

Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements. Our...

The sound of a bell Still reverberating, or a blackbird calling from a corner of the field, asking you to wake into this life, or...

And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anaïs Nin

Suppose you do change your life. & the body is more than a portion of night–sealed with bruises. Suppose you woke & found your shadow...

When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and...

I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how...