A blog for the book IMPERFECT: a poetry anthology for middle schoolers about mistakes
How can we make the most of useful mistakes and do our best to fix the ones that need fixing? Poetry can help us figure it out.
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Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets.
~ Fred Rogers
2020 left many with undone plans and actions, 2021 may let us complete them. Stay safe. --DM
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To know one's self is true progress.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
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Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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...the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
~ Martha Washington
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
~ Eckhart Tolle
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Persevere with a plan to reach your passion, and life will be good.
~ Homer Hickam
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The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.
~ Stephen King
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We never do anything well 'till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
~ William Hazlitt
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Keep sending good out into the world, no matter what! Someone hungers for the good you have to offer.
~ Nikki Grimes
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What do we have that we can have faith in? Well, we can have an understanding of yesterday, we can have a plan for today and we can have hope for forever, and that’s it.
~ Tom Hanks
