No tomorrow..

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Nature hides..

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creation..

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Linking...

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Calm..

Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby

Secret..

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

Good and beautiful...

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. ~Ninon de L'Enclos

Wondering..

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane

Broken Heart..

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. ~Author Unknown

Prayer...

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Samuel M. Shoemaker

Growing Up...

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going. ~Author Unknown

A daughter...

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. ~Author Unknown

Confidence...

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ~Peter T. Mcintyre

Shy presences..

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane

Empty Bottle...

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic

Imperfection...

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. ~Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault), The Garden of Epicurus, 1894

Together...

Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown

Our minds..

Our minds are lazier than our bodies. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

Teamwork....

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock

As he is...

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. ~Alfred Tonnelle

Personal Diary...

Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. ~Sara, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

Sweetness...

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! ~Author Unknown