Claudia Flannagan

“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
― Emily Dickinson

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n”
― John Milton