Laura Blackmore

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
― Robert Frost

“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”
― Robert Frost

“She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha

“Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower
steel, stitch, cloud and clout,
and drumbeats on the air.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks