Nikki

“Listen to me very closely: being looked at is not the same as being seen.”
― Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

“But won’t you be ashamed To count the passing year At its mere cost, your debt Inevitably paid? For every year is costly, As you know well. Nothing Is given that is not Taken, and nothing taken That was not first a gift.”
― Wendell Berry, Given

“According to the ancient Greeks, the god Apollo banished the raven to the constellation Corvus after the bird tried to blame his own misdeeds on Hydra, the water serpent.”
― Candace Savage, Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World

“Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.”
― Wendell Berry, Given