Eugene Stokely

“I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Poetry is a means of storing power: notably the magical power of love.”
― Robert Graves

“Revelation


WE make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated heart
Till someone find us really out.

’Tis pity if the case require
(Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire
The understanding of a friend.

But so with all, from babes that play
At hide-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are”
― Robert Frost, A Boy's Will

“At what point does faith become insanity?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master