Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
I prefer to remain anomalous. - Barbara Kingsolver
I prefer to remain anomalous.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say. - Barbara Kingsolver
The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can. - Barbara Kingsolver
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
Downstream is always someone else's up. - Barbara Kingsolver
Downstream is always someone else's up.
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning. - Barbara Kingsolver
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to li… - Barbara Kingsolver
One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to li…
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. - Barbara Kingsolver
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow. - Barbara Kingsolver
Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't. - Barbara Kingsolver
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.
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