Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.
—Terri Guillemets
popular
Agony of anxious
Fear —
not running-from-bear
but running-from-life
Courage —
not getting-up-the-nerve
but getting-up-every-day
—Terri Guillemets
Who’s there?
Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.
—Terri Guillemets
Grow love
Plant love everywhere, so that it grows through the cracks in hatred.
—Terri Guillemets
Excite
Lightning dances —
Thunder applauds her!
—Terri Guillemets
Chasing the past
Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future.
—Terri Guillemets
P.S. Thanks so much to Rebecca for letting me know that this quote was used in the television show Being Erica. In the episode “Plenty of Fish,”
In pieces
The emotions are part of the wound.
—Terri Guillemets
Paper doesn’t forget
We write to remember our nows later.
—Terri Guillemets
Inkdreaming
the smell of ink is
intoxicating to me —
others may have wine
but I have poetry
—Terri Guillemets
April morning
My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.
—Terri Guillemets
P.S. Artist Katie Daisy wrote to let me know that she illustrated this quote. It’s so beautiful! You can view it here.