Marisa Crane

Don’t ever let anyone keep your heart on a shelf just to take it down whenever it is convenient for them to feel.

The moonlight melts into lace across your thighs. Unbridled passion, an Elliott Smith vinyl, and the intimate place of you.

It occurred to me that love, simply stated, is replacing the need to always be right with the need to be understanding.

The Smiths dream into my ear on this lost and lonely morning. I sing along like it is the only prayer I know (forgive me, Mother Mary).

This is not new territory. Stop lights like lullabies write my eulogy.

My favorite nightcap, after all this time, is still the cocktail of you.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Fueling your body is a process… The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

It is better to walk alone, then with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.