Paul Hoy

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
-Dr. Seuss”
― Dr Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

“The main thing is to write
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night
dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.
Take off from here.”
― Seamus Heaney, Station Island

“Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery.”
― Jim Harrison, The River Swimmer: Novellas

“I did not want to live out my life in the strennous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tic-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foilbles...”
― Jim Harrison, Julip