Jon Birondo

“We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech”
― William Carlos Williams, Paterson

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin