We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

- Josephine Hart

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

- Josephine Hart

We do have choice, but not without some agony.

- Josephine Hart

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

- Josephine Hart

There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it, ease lik…

- Josephine Hart

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

- Josephine Hart

We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. We let time cascade ov…

- Josephine Hart

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever tru…

- Josephine Hart

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitabl…

- Josephine Hart