For the Asking – Denise Levertov
https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2019/05/for-asking.html
Quotes from Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Freeman Dyson
Mary – Bertolt Brecht
https://saintjulianpress.com/interconnections/mary-bertolt-brecht
Quote from Nicholas Mazza (from his book Poetry Therapy)
The Arch – Shirley Kaufman
Hold On to What Is Good – Various attributions, including Nancy Wood, as Hopi prayer, as Blackfoot prayer, and elsewhere https://nancywood.com/?p=93
Burlap Sack – Jane Hirshfield
https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/05/jane-hirshfield-burlap-sack.html
I Love the Dark Hours of My Being – Rainer Maria Rilke
from Rilke’s Book of Hours, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/02/rainer-maria-rilke-untitled-i-love-dark.html
Tears in Rain – Rutger Hauer monologue from Blade Runner
https://genius.com/Rutger-hauer-blade-runner-tears-in-rain-soliloquy-annotated
Photo: Banyan tree at the temple of Wat Mahathat, Ayutthaya, Thailand
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/03/15/a-buddhas-head-hiding-inside-a-tree-in-thailand-continues-to-amaze/