Beckensteins Quotes & Sayings

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language. — Carl Sandburg

What's fate to you, opal? she asks.
opal leans back, too. oh, lots of things. lots and lots of things all pushed up against each other that makes something else happen. so much pushing it just can't happen any other way - unless you push back to make it not. — Mary E. Pearson

When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner. — Sheri Fink

Are you smellin' what I'm steppin' in? — Aaron

My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. — Mary Oliver

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both. — Marianne Williamson