“I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.” ― Robert Bly “The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.” ― Martin Shaw "We would give anything for what we have." ― Tony Hoagland "If we let the limiting forces of circumstance and sorrow and boundary enter the play, we get poems. All of the poems I love involve brokenness and death and loss or desire and also an enormous amount of that ethereal force that is our play, our dream. It is the birdsong at the funeral." ― Steve Scafidi "What if wonder was the ground of our gathering?" ― Ross Gay “By going deeper into myth, I go deeper into love, and when I go deeper into love, innately I find morality. I locate a True North in my own heart.” ― Martin Shaw "How one gets work is a story. Whom you love is another story. ‘The human story is simple: We are born, we fortunately and joyously live and then die. Ah but allowing the joy in ‘we live.’ What does it mean to ‘live?’ To be truly alive? We owe allegiance to the beautiful body and its senses and the spirit which lives within." ― Gioia Timpanelli “It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.” ― Robert Bly “It is not our job to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves / Like the trees, and be born again / Drawing up from the great roots.” ― Robert Bly