Nancy Willard Quotes

• I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that's when you discover the stars.

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  Stars, Positive Thinking, Night

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• Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

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  Prayer, Angel, Fire

  Nancy Willard (2014). “Things Invisible to See: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

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  Doors, Answers, Rooms

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• Live in your roots, not in your branches.

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  Roots, Branches, Superficiality

  Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.303, Open Road Media

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• It used to be on the Internet no one knew you were a dog. Now not only does everyone know that you are a dog, they know what kind of a dog you are, who you run with, where you hide your bones, the accidental piddle behind the couch, the fight you got into with the boxer, and your thoughts on the hot poodle down the street.

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  Running, Dog, Fighting

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• We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.

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  Understanding, Forgotten

  Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.303, Open Road Media

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• What you need will come back to you.

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  Needs

  Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.303, Open Road Media

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• Faith takes root in the insignificant.

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  Faith, Roots, Insignificant

  Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.

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  Beauty, Stars, Bird

  Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.

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  Believe, Heart, Belief

  Nancy Willard (2000). “Things Invisible to See”, p.223, iUniverse

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