I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of. Marianne Wiggins More Quotes by Marianne Wiggins More Quotes From Marianne Wiggins What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places. Marianne Wiggins unseen size moving I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life. Marianne Wiggins curiosity children thinking You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes. Marianne Wiggins eye faces thinking I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context. Marianne Wiggins want world I will never turn to God. Marianne Wiggins turn-to-god turns I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie. Marianne Wiggins canvas language writing I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car. Marianne Wiggins hammers rocks car Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved. Marianne Wiggins news reading book Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness. Marianne Wiggins eye essence two Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts. Marianne Wiggins silence writing needs Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can’t use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count. Marianne Wiggins limits gold water There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived. Marianne Wiggins fleeting answers You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman. Marianne Wiggins speak-your-mind speak mind ...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger. Marianne Wiggins sadness people art I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old. Marianne Wiggins children years thinking
