Kelsie O’Leary

“The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you.”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“Could anyone figure it out, to a finality? So why spend so much time trying. You fuss, we live.”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings

“Now, though, I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Tent