Artist Quote by Hermann Hesse

Writing 'Blue Bird' gave me strength, courage, and power from my own words and melodies in a time when I needed it the most.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

“He's a hot bath, a short breath, five days of summer pressed into five fingers writing stories on my body.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“The act of writing if one is conscious of legibility is a wonderful discipline. Our minds, which roil like captured oceans, are forced to…

— Anonymous

With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like…

— Hermann Hesse

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are…

— Anais Nin

[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were…

— John Carlos

Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

— William Ralph Inge

I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This…

— Katrina Kenison

Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions-…

— Pam Brown

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the…

— Ida B. Wells