“We are suspended in that eternal moment between the past and the future.”
– RHW, July 5, 2022

“It seems to me that most animals have this superb economy of motion. The instinctual notion of how much energy to expend, the ability to do a thing thoughtlessly and do it right, is a quality that I esteem enormously. I want to get a feeling of this instinctualness into poetry. How to do this linguistically is a difficult thing. That it can or should be done might be an illusion. But it fascinates me to try.”
– James Dickey, Self Interviews, p. 60

“Without words, hearts and minds are isolated. Without words, it would be impossible to transfer ideas, express thoughts and communicate wills between two unconnected hearts. It is no wonder then that God chose a word to open his heart to us and our hearts to him… and the Word became flesh.”
– Chris Rush

“The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature.”
– T.H. Huxley