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"For thou must know that it is not always the defence that a man weareth upon his body that bringeth him success, but more often it is the spirit that uplifted him unto his undertakings."

"Here followers the story of Sir Pellias, surnamed by many the Gentle Knight. For Sir Pellias was of such a sort that it was said of him that all women loved him without disadvantage to themselves, and that all men loved him to their great good advantage."

Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up
And say how many Dew,
Tell me how far the morning leaps —
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadth of blue!

Write me how many notes there be
In the new Robin's ecstasy
Among astonished boughs —
How many trips the Tortoise makes —
How many cups the Bee partakes,
The Debauchee of Dews!

And made as He would eat me up –
As wholly as a Dew
Opon a Dandelion's Sleeve –
And then – I started – too –

And He – He followed – close behind –
I felt His Silver Heel
Opon my Ancle – Then My Shoes
Would overflow with Pearl –

Until We met the Solid Town –
No One He seemed to know –
And bowing – with a Mighty look –
At me – The Sea withdrew –

I started Early – Took my Dog –
And visited the Sea –
The Mermaids in the Basement
Came out to look at me –

And Frigates – in the Upper Floor
Extended Hempen Hands –
Presuming Me to be a Mouse –
Aground – opon the Sands –

But no Man moved Me – till the Tide
Went past my simple Shoe –
And past my Apron – and my Belt
And past my Boddice – too –

"Yea, he who is a true king of men, will not say to himself 'Lo! I am worthy to be crowned with laurels;' but rather will he say to himself, 'What more is there that I may do to make the world the better because of my endeavors?'"

“For any man may be a king in that life in which he is placed if so he may draw forth the sword of success from out of the iron of circumstance. Wherefore when your time of assay cometh, I do hope it may be with you as it was with Arthur that day, and that ye too may achieve success with entire satisfaction unto yourself and to your great glory and perfect happiness. Amen.

“for so it is in this world that a man sometimes approves himself to be worth of such a great trust as there, and yet, in lowliness of spirit, he is yet altogether unaware that he is worthy thereof. And so it was with young Arthur at that time.”

“For I believe that King Arthur was the most honorable, gentle Knight who ever lived in all the world. And those who were his fellows of the Round Table - taking him as their looking-glass of chivalry - made, altogether, such company of noble knights that it is hardly to be supposed that their like will ever be seen again in this world.”

“that she can see people’s futures, she can read thier palms, or whatever it is she does. But now, for the first time, she has a sense of what people mean. Agnes is of another world. She does not quite belong here.”

“Nobody is born with self esteem. It is an earned presence within yourself. It comes from you learning little by little that you can handle the greatest fears of human existence and still survive. Self esteem is about survival. That if you have to be alone, you can be. And if you have to make it in the world by yourself you can.”

“All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.” -H.P. Lovecraft

“The dream work process is like the journey in my dream: an exploration with an unknown destination. But when we arrive, we will know it.”

“Waking early cuts off the longest episode of this dream-rich part of our sleep cycle, which is implicated in the regulation of mood and consolidation of memory.”

“You will know who you are when you see who you are not… you will know what is real when you accept what is not real… you will know love when you realize what love is not.”

“Spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.”

“More important than seeing itself is what warriors DO with what they see.”

“Warriors have only one thing in mind - their freedom.”

“Warriors aim at succeeding therefore they compress time.”

“A warrior’s final aim is to focus through profound discipline his unwavering attention on the wheel of time in order to make it turn. Warriors who have succeeded in turning the wheel of time, can gaze into any furrow and draw from it whatever they desire. To be free from the spellbinding force of gazing into only one of those furrows means warriors can gaze in either direction as time retreats or as it advances

“Love ignores near measures, the waves leave ragged wet marks on the shore, autumn lights one more fire in the maples.”

“like thoughtful fairies in a Shakespeare play”

“And we did, reading Austen, Dickinson, Eliot, Woolf, until we understood we’d come to train-not tame-the wild girls into the women who would run the world.”

“I tell you, Chickadee, I am afraid of people who cannot cry Tears left unshed turn to poison in the ducts.”

“I am the woman offering two flowers whose roots are twin Justice and Hope Let us begin.”

“to love and be loved in absentia is joy enough for me.”

“Women have always been the weavers of the world, literally and figuratively. We weave people together. we weave our stories into words. Poetry has been one of the ways we do this. Poems distill our deepest emotions into a very few words- words that we can remember, carry with us, and share with others as we talk and weave the cloth of life.”