Gretel Ehrlich
Gretel Ehrlich
Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, poet, and essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEssayist
Date of Birth21 January 1946
CitySanta Barbara, CA
CountryUnited States of America
nature invites
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.
sadness voyages feels
What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.
memories passion long
To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.