Sheldon Gaskell

“But earlier this week on a wooded path,
I thought the swans afloat on the reservoir
were the true geniuses,

the ones who had figured out how to fly,
how to be both beautiful and brutal,
and how to mate for life.”
― Billy Collins, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems

“Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into a lucid form and forcing them into the tightfitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.”
― Pat Conroy, My Reading Life

“Music without soul is a sound but sound with a soul is music”
― Jann Glenn Silla