Terry

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
― Mary Oliver

“Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
and I eat men like air.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The souls moving along ... are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible?”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition by: Walt Whitman