Mike Mishik

“Damn me not I make a better fool. And there is nothing vaster, more beautiful, remote, unthinking (eternal rose-red sunrise on the surf—great rectitude of rocks) than man, inhuman man,

At whom I look for a thousand light years from a seat near Scorpio, amazed and touched by his concern and pity for my plight, a simple star,

Then trading shapes again. My wife is gone, my girl is gone, my books are loaned, my clothes are worn, I gave away a car; and all that happened years ago. Mind & matter, love & space are frail as foam on beer.”
― Gary Snyder, Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems

“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
― James Dean

“Range after range of mountains.
Year after year after year.
I am still in love.”
― Gary Snyder

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey