Quotes from Mary Caroline Richards

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

The big art is our life.

People don't want to feel stuck, they want to be able to change.

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.