Ken Ronkowitz

“Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Computers can deliver nuclear explosions to precisely anywhere on earth.
A lightning bolt is made entirely of error.”
― Galway Kinnell, A New Selected Poems

“We know not what we do when we hate.”
― Herman Melville, Mardi and a Voyage Thither

“A river no more begins at its source than a story begins with the first page.”
― Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River