Patty

“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen