Beginnings Quote by Theodore Roethke

Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more…

— Lucretius

“TAKING LEAVE Of the unhindered motion in the million swirled and twisted grooves of the juniper driftwood lying in the sand; taking leave of…

— Pattiann Rogers

“Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of…

— David Foster Wallace

The tiny seed knew that in order to grow, it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach the…

— Anonymous

I return to the newborn world, and the soft-soil fields, What their first birthing lifted to the shores Of light, and trusted to the…

— Lucretius

“It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when one begins…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Our first assigment was at a place the old maps called Telezon. A rare town not planted on a lake, it was surrounded by…

— Andrea K. Höst

“Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of…

— David Foster Wallace

Grass grows at last above all graves.

— Julia Caroline Dorr

The tiny seed knows that in order to grow, it needs to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach for…

— Anonymous

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“He suddenly felt the intense sad loveliness of being as being, apart from right or wrong: that, indeed, the mere fact of being was…

— T.H. White