Inspirational Quote by Theodore Roethke

“Then, one on either side, they walked me to the shore, which was black and endless. But there was a fire waiting. And there…

— Emily M. Danforth

“It came very fast and the sun went a dull yellow and then everything was gray and the sky was covered and the cloud…

— Ernest Hemingway

“One clear night while the others slept, I climbed the stairs to the roof of the house and under a sky strewn with stars…

— Mark Strand

“Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Drawn up on shore, our boats await the day. Under a dying moon the rapids gleam. The wind picks up, the lanterns toss and…

— Tu Fu

“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and…

— Andrew Wyeth

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Oh! What a miserable night I passed! The cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me; now and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“There rolls the deep where grew the tree O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars hath been. The…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you…

— Isabel Greenberg

“And afterward, when the leaves turned and the snow came, every now and then I would rise in everyone's minds like a tide.”

— Jodi Picoult

“The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low: And the startled little waves that leap In fiery…

— Robert Browning