Civitella Quotes

#1. Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

Jane Hirshfield

#2. I will worship at the shrine of Brad from this day forth.

Alessandra Torre

#3. Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

Santosh Kalwar

#4. I don't like country music."
"No one does. We listen to it to piss off other people.

Bijou Hunter

#5. I like people who can see what other people can't yet imagine.

Sean Patrick Maloney

#6. It is not that we are short of time ... It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A time revolution..is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness.

Richard Koch

#7. There was a boy in my building who was my best friend when I was growing up. There was also a mysterious person on my corner who we called the Laughing Man.

Rebecca Stead

#8. My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

Hugo Claus

#9. You can make anything by writing.

C.S. Lewis

#10. I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense; the ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute's sharpness.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#11. The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

Gisele Bundchen