The day of the Sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

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"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."

- Wallace Stevens

Love

"The summer night is like a perfection of thought."

- Wallace Stevens

Awareness

"The sun sets not on the world, but in us."

- Wallace Stevens

Self-awareness

"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."

- Wallace Stevens

Inspiration

"The imagination is man’s power over nature."

- Wallace Stevens

Creativity

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"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."

- Carol Nelson

Nature

"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."

- Joanna Gaines

Nature

"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."

- Richard Paul Evans

Nature

"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Nature

"We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all."

- Joanna Gaines

Nature