Libby

“When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, The Poems of Marianne Moore

“A deep distress hath humanised my soul.”
― William Wordsworth

“To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.”
― Adrienne Rich

“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady