Animal Quote by Stephen Dunn

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach…

— Toni Morrison

I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.

— Sylvia Plath

“At the top, I put the camera's viewfinder to my eye and slowly turned, the way my grandmother had taught me. From every vantage…

— Mary Simses

We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving…

— Shirley Jackson

I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces…

— William Faulkner

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see…

— Rabindranath Tagore

As a kid, picturing people who grew up in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I walking around in hose and latched shoes in the…

— Robert Eggers

I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain.

— Rumi

I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into…

— Banana Yoshimoto

What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that…

— Alexey Leonov

Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities,…

— Anonymous

It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size…

— Jimmy Carter