A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being.

~ Ursula Le Guin {citation}

We come spinning out of nothingness
scattering stars like dust
the stars make a circle
and in the middle we dance.

~ Rumi {citation}

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

~ Toni Morrison {citation}

Around us swirls the dust of the cities,
the garbage clings to us.
And yet if our Earth needed to
she could weave us together like roses.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke {citation}