May

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them.

Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”

~ Michael Ondaatje (b. 12 September 1943), The English Patient

April

“A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew,

A cloud, and a rainbow’s warning,

Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue—An April day in the morning.”

~ Harriet Prescott Spofford, (b. April 3, 1835 – d. August 14, 1921)

“There are two ways of spreading light;

to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

~Edith Wharton (b. January 24, 1862 – d. August 11, 1937)

“The complexity of things—the things within things—just seems to be endless.

I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.”

~ Alice Munro (b. July 10^th 1931)

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”

~ T.S. Eliot (b. 26 September 1888 – d. 4 January 1965)

“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”

~ Graham Greene (b. 2 October 1904 – d. 3 April 1991), The End of the Affair

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
– Aristotle (b. 384 BC – d. 322 BC)