Quotes: Gertrude Stein

"Strip everything away to the minimum. When you start over, leave only what is truly needed."

–– Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American writer 

Source: Judy's Journal blog (Judy Martin), Monday November 25, 2019.

via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2020, p. 38. 

Quotes: Anne Michaels

Anne Michaels quote illustrated by Karen Thiessen with Gears pattern © Karen Thiessen, 2013

CBC Radio One aired an audio recording of this Anne Michaels book in the late 1990s and the above quote hit me so hard that I had to get a copy of the book and read it with my own eyes. Powerful stuff.

Quotes: Rainer Maria Rilke

"What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours – that is what you must be able to attain." – Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet