#to

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#concrete #large #limited #need #often

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#change #directly #enterprise #friends #himself

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes. ↗

— Tori Amos

#bare #bare feet #cause #cold #feeling

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too. ↗

— Sandra Neil Wallace

#author-sandra-neil-wallace #belonging #family #little-joe #nature

I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way! ↗

— Tori Amos

#cleanse #day #drunk #every #every day

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it. ↗

— Tori Amos

#dive #explore #get #i #i think

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#happy #incident #life #life is a #lovely

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something. ↗

— Tori Amos

#away #feel #giving #going #i

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told. ↗

— Tori Amos

#ask #british #even #him #husband

I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity. ↗

— Bob Anderson

#because #given #had #i #identity