Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

- Mary Caroline Richards

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

- Mary Caroline Richards

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

- Mary Caroline Richards

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

- Mary Caroline Richards

Compassion is an alternate perception

- Mary Caroline Richards

The big art is our life.

- Mary Caroline Richards

We have to trust these feelings. We have to trust the invisible gauges we carry within us. We have to realize that a creative being lives within ours…

- Mary Caroline Richards

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas of myself, of man be changed? Am I able to follow …

- Mary Caroline Richards

We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration . . .

- Mary Caroline Richards