All The Things That Made My Life Full—sciences, Not The Least Of Them—an Ever-unfolding Journey Of

Cynthia Macdonald, from a poem titled "By The Sea," featured in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker

The Sacrifice (1986) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, from a letter featured in The Life & Letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton; "Flee On Your Donkey,"

Till death do us part? Yea no you’re not getting out of this that easily

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

If my poetry & prose don’t feel like this song; I won’t write them. ( I )