4 Quotes & Sayings By Martha M Moravec

Martha M. Moravec was born in the Czech Republic and raised in Buffalo, NY. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Rochester and a Master of Arts in English from the University of the State of New York College at Brockport. She has published five novels and four collections of poetry, including The Green Bridge, which won the James Laughlin Award for Poetry Read more

Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including American Review, The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, The Antioch Review, The Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, Connecticut Review, The Gettysburg Review, New Virginia Writing, The South Carolina Review, and others. She is currently writing a novel about a family caught up during World War II.

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Life is sad and there is nothing we can do about it. All we can is to be vigilant about what we should not do. The worst thing we can do is to not feel the sadness, to not weep, to not acknowledge the hurt that sits at the core of the human heart. Martha M. Moravec
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I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things not shared, the lost opportunity to be honest about oneself and tender toward others. Martha M. Moravec
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For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home. Martha M. Moravec