“To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’ What else? It's brilliantly instead and odd.” GivingMindLittlesBookWishWalksGriefHalfTreeSadnessMoonSpeechOrdinaryShadowBillsNeighborCuriousOddSurprisingWetOrdinary LifeTelescopesMicroscopesTwigs Author:Marianne Boruch
“If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.” IfsLittlesJoyGreaterSadnessBears Book:Rilke in Paris Source: Rilke in Paris
“the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.” LittlesArtSadnessMoodCompensation Author:Edgar Degas
“I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.” LittlesLightFoundLeftSadnessGreatnessLuckyDestroyed Author:Lady Gaga
“You have to feel your own personal truth with a little ‘t’ – your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order to get to the Truth with a big ‘T’.” FeelsLittlesBigsOrderSadnessExampleRageFrustrationPersonal Truth Author:Derek Rydall