Courtesy of Gretchen Rubin Moment of Happiness
Remember every room has its gloom and the great thing to do is to find the color that will cut that gloom.
Gertrude Stein
Everybody’s Autobiography
Her green mind made the world around her green.
WALLACE STEVENS
“Description Without Place”
The farm was a form: not like a set of rules on a wall, but like the symmetry of winter and summer, or like the balance of day and night over the year, June against December.
DONALD HALL
String Too Short to Be Saved
I shall never have the garden I have in my mind, but that for me is the joy of it; certain things can never be realized and so all the more reason to attempt them.
JAMAICA KINCAID
My Garden (Book)
You know that book; you forget the title after you’ve returned it and over the years you try to look it up a few times, but you never find it again.
HELEN OYEYEMI
Boy, Snow, Bird
The wish to make collections, to assemble sets, is surely a deep urge of the human mind in its playful, artistic aspect.
John Updike
Prodigy is, at its essence, adaptability and persistent, positive obsession. Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
Parable Of The Sower
Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.
SARAH BERNHARDT
quoted in Madame Sarah
“Why Write?”
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
Kurt Vonnegut
Letter
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Daily life may seem trivial and routine, but in fact it contains a multitude of incidents, at once rich, expansive, and touching.”
Yu Hua,
China in Ten Words.
