“Poems would be easy if our heads weren’t full of the day’s clatter. The task is to get through to the other side, where we can hear the deep rhythms that connect us with the stars and the tides…I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.”

—Stanley Kunitz

“To be alive at all is to have scars."

- John Steinbeck

born on this day in 1902.