“If the nightingale sings with her breast against a thorn, why not we?” — Susan Gilbert Dickinson to Emily Dickinson in 1861
Creative Liberation
Quote of the Week for Aug. 29
“To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
Quote of the Week for Aug. 1
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” — Pablo Picasso
Quote of the Week for July 11
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” — Galileo
Quote of the Week for July 4
“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.