“Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising.” DreamForeverMysteryMouthsUnderstoodRiversStonesGrassRisingGravityMarvelousAllegianceLambs Book:Evidence: Poems Source: Evidence: Poems
“Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.” DreamEyeMemoriesSurfaceRingsConfusionAwakeRisingFloatingTrout Book:Crossing to Safety Source: Crossing to Safety
“One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and see those sentences rising up... and... think, 'Someday maybe I can write like that....' It was like a dream of possibilities for my own self. And maybe I began to know that there was no other way for the sentence... to... arouse the same feeling. The someone writing whose words were rising from the typewriter became like a mentor for me.... You shouldn't do it more than a few times because you must get on with your own work.” ThinkingKnowsWayWritingI CanBookSelfFeelingsDreamBeautifulMovingMy OwnOne ThingPossibilityTypeSentencesRisingSomedayMentorParagraphTypewritersGreat WritersRising Up Author:Gina Berriault