Cecilia Moar

“One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings..”
― W.H. Auden

“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

“We would rather die in dread/ Than climb the cross of the moment/ And let our illusions die.”
― W.H. Auden