I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Source: In Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, by James B. Simpson, 1988.
-- Diane Ackerman, (Oct 7 1948-____), US poet, writer, social worker; She is noted for stretching the limits of what poets write about; wrote The Other Night, 1974.