Dreamers

The greatest prison that people live in is the fear of what other people think.

I like cancelled plans. And empty bookstores. I like rainy days and thunderstorms. And quiet coffee shops. I like messy beds and over-worn pajamas. Most of all, I like the small joys that a simple life brings.

Life is for deep kisses, strange adventures, midnight swims and rambling conversations.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

“I feel like all poems are essentially hopeful. Even if a poem is depressing and hopeless, its existence, the feeling that it has conveyed something, is miraculous and hopeful.”

scientists tell us that all water

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”