Ellen Bass Quotes

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• There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human…
• Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.
• It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you .…
• Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a great way to discharge tension,…
• There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.
• So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I…
• Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain.
• I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that…
• I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.
• I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
• Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.
• Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts…
• to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your…
• Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.
• Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will…
• To love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it. when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of…

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