“A final observation. Comics is a river; many voices travel in it; comic after comic moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves.

None is timeless; each arrives in a new historical context; almost everything in the end, passes.

But the desire to make a comic and the world’s willingness to receive it — indeed the world’s need of it — these never pass. 

If it is all comics, not just one’s own accomplishment, that carries one from this green and mortal world — that lifts the latch and gives a glimpse into greater paradise — then perhaps one has the sensibility: gratitude apart from authorship, fervor and desire beyond the margins of the self.”

—Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook. Revised by Juan José Fernandez to replace “poetry” and “poem” with “comics” and “comic.”