
“You choose to be a novelist,” she once said, “but you’re chosen to be a poet. This is a gift and it’s a tremendous responsibility. You have to be willing to give something terribly intimate and secret of yourself to the world and not care, because you have to believe that what you have to say is important enough.”
May Sarton
Poetry Almanac
May 3, 2022
“Let us ask ourselves: am I capable of an outburst of generosity,
or do I restrain the impulses of my heart and close myself off in routine,
in fear?
Jump in, dive in.
This is today’s word from Jesus.”
Pope Francis