Change can be for the better or for the worse, but not changing, when it contradicts a person's beliefs, is always bad. - I wrote this in a paper once. It sticks with me. 

"The beginning of change is the moment of doubt." - Doubt, Shanley

Uniting Through Grief

"The closest bonds we will ever know are the bonds of grief." - McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

I think of September 11th. I think of the way communities, large and small, unite and come together in times of difficulty and tragedy.

"Poetry is what's left after the ball is over."

"The slow hard toil of getting all the lovely words just right." - James Branch Cabell

"Let us show them the meaning of haste." - Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring

"Yesterday's 'fact' might become today's misunderstanding, misinterpretation, or downrigth mistake." - Science by Seven French, page 2

"The quality that distinguishes poetry from prose, is music." - Bedford Companion to Shakespeare

"The afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning; only its meaning and purpose are different." - Carl Jung

On a bench along the river in london, "Everybody needs a place to think."