Mandy Bernd

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
― Walt Whitman

“We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.”
― Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems

“I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.”
― Stanley Kunitz

“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself