Maria Burns

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

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“All serious daring starts from within.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet