If she forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin t… - Carl Sandburg

...The blood of roses, splashed with the blood of angels, and of demons.

Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong
and the final decisions are made in silent rooms.
Tell him to be different from other people
if it comes natural and easy being different.
Let him have lazy days seeking his deeper motives.
Let him seek deep for where he is a born natural.
Then he may understand Shakespeare
and the Wright brothers, Pasteur, Pavlov,
Michael Faraday and free imaginations
Bringing changes into a world resenting change.
He will be lonely enough
to have time for the work
he knows as his own.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud