*Lisa Zaran*

 

 

 

 

I was born on September 26, 1969 in Los Angeles, California.

I did real well in school, although I was a very shy.

When I was six years old I wrote my first poem, Hallway is what I called it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 My Favorite Quotes

 

"Could it think, the heart would stop beating."

~Fernando Pessoa

 

 

 

"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet." ~Bob Dylan

"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

 

"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it." ~Sylvia Plath

 

 

"But we are sure to meet in here. If I keep you in my heart -- which I surely will -- and if you keep me in your heart -- and I hopes that you will -- then we will always have the other person anytime that we want to look in our heart."

~Mississippi John Hurt

 

 

"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door." ~Michael Ondaatje

 

 

"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."

~Rainer Maria Rilke