Mary Caroline Richards Quotes

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration ...

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

The big art is our life.

People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to change.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

Compassion is an alternate perception

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

Bear ye one another's burdens, the Lord said, and he was talking law.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.