“I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.” ThinkingMindEyePastMotherGoneSpringCrossesEdgesLovelyFleetingLuminousCardinals Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.” WantIdeasPastVoiceBrushesFleetingMoths Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“April is the two-week-old kitten, the month-old lamb, the six-month-old heifer, the two-year-old girl. Too young to know it has either past or future, it wears the ribbon of the fleeting present as part of itself.” KnowsYearsTwoPastYoungGirlWeekMonthsSixTwo YearsFleetingSix MonthsAprilTwo WeeksLambsKittenRibbonsTwo Year Olds Author:Gladys Hasty Carroll