"Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight."
- Shane L. Koyczan
"Can I see some ID?" "WE DON'T HAVE ID," said Jay, loudly. "'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN. WE DON'T USE ID...THERE. AND THAT'S WHY WE LOOK SO YOUNG. 'CAUSE WE'RE CANADIAN." Doug stiffened. Jay sounded crazy. D..."
- Adam Rex
"All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person."
- Asa Don Brown
"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot."
- Bill Richardson
"You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person with a good thought, there are..."
- J.M. Lavallee
"A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves."No one makes poetry..."
- George Elliott Clarke
"In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust."
- Joy Kogawa
"We are only allowed to livedue to some colossal misunderstanding."
- Jeramy Dodds
"The moon twangs its silver strings;The river swoons into town;The wind beds down in the pines,Covers itself with stars."
"In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,Malnourished poems that professors love;The bad grammar and dirty words that catchIn the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.Pablo, your words are rain ..."