"After all, the wool from the black sheep is just as warm. ” — Sister Margaretta, The Sound of Music Prose or poetry

"...it just changes you enough so you can live with them." (Matlock 2025, episode 4) Poetry or prose.

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift." (Mary Oliver) Poetry, please.

"Every storm runs out of rain." (Maya Angelou) Poetry or prose

"Hatred is gained as much by good works as evil." (Niccolo Machiavelli) Prose or poetry.

"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. " Niccolo Machiavelli Prose, please.

"A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended." (Ian McEwan) Prose or poetry.

Poetry or prose

That's a scary thought... Poetry or prose

"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened." (Jorge Luis Borges)

"Maybe there is a beast...maybe it's only us." (William Golding, Lord of the Flies)

"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." Niccolo Machiavelli

"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see." José Saramago, Nkbrl prize winning Portuguese author)

"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light." (Pythagoras) Poetry or prose.

"Clouds are the dream weavers of the sky, spinning fantasies in sunlight" (Rabindranath Tagore) Poetry or prose.

Prose or poetry.

"Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place." (Unknown) Prose, please.

"The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” (Irving Berlin) Poetry or prose.

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." (Khalil Gibran) Poetry or prose.

If you aren't familiar with it, Google Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory and then...write. Poetry or prose.