“You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.”
— Annie Dillard
"A life that is
vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude,
unstinting work and play, and lots of walking brings us close to the
actually existing world and its wholeness."
— Gary Snyder
“But
why shouldn't my work be hard? Almost everybody's work is hard. One is
distracted by this notion that there is such a thing as inspiration,
that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style.
I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff, to come up with my
payload.”
— Leonard Cohen
“By believing
passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The
nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
— Franz Kafka
