Orts #915

Even poetry, Sweet Patron Muse forgive me the words, is not what music is.
     -- Edna St. Vincent Millay, in a letter, 1920
 
 
. . . but then what was the benefit of reaching Nasreen Baji’s station? If she could be this wealthy and have power over so many people but couldn’t grow her own garden, what kind of freedom was that?
     -- Aisha Saeed, Amal Unbound


[T]he best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
     — Ann Patchett, Do Not Disturb, Gourmet magazine, August 2006
 
 
Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?
     -- Ann Patchett, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Audible Originals, Winter 2011
 
both Ann Patchett pieces are reprinted in her collection of non-fiction pieces, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, 2013