Vanna Bonta
Novelist, poet and actress.
When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it’s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.
You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.
A poet's first contract is with truth.
Creativity, no matter how elementally miniscule or broad in scope, is what differentiates human beings as superior to any material value, and also empowers the achievement of excellence beyond personal flaws.
Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.
Poetry achieves its pinnacle when it is the perfection and mastery of expression (creation, perception) as Art (arrangement).
How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? ... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.
I love the sound of those engines.
When confidence in the power to create is obscured, greed sets in, for greed is nothing but the loss of confidence in one’s own ability to create.
Popularity is not an indication of quality.
When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.
Unfamiliar environments heighten adrenalin, which might work for stimulating excitement or against totally relaxing into any kind of intimacy.
Love is the eternal first breath.
It’s of note that the word 'cosmetic' has its roots in the word 'cosmos.'
Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.
I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.
A phoneme, an utterance, could be said to be the beginning of poetry's evolutionary chain.
Always is no Time at all.
It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.