Renee Fair

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”
― Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
― Mary Oliver

“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver