Ellen Bass
Ellen Bass
Ellen Bassis an American poet and co-author of The Courage to Heal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
life self-esteem block
Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a great way to discharge tension, work through emotional blocks, release anger, and gain self-esteem.
ocean apples earth
If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care. But when Newton’s apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.
writing responsibility healing
So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis
thinking people speak
I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.
santa santa-cruz cruz
I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.
school high-school wanted
I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
writing want firsts
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.
people looks honey
What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time?
people inspire kind
So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.
email heard listeners
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.
love-you eye charming-smile
Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.
moving goal want
Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.
telling-the-truth
Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.
knowing comfort heal
There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.