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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f8c5989 | His large ears Hear everything A hermit wakes And sleeps in a hut Underneath His gaunt cheeks. His eyes blue, alert, Disappointed, And suspicious, Complain I Do not bring him The same sort of Jokes the nurses Do. He is a bird Waiting to be fed,-- Mostly beak-- an eagle Or a vulture, or The Pharoah's servant Just before death. My arm on the bedrail Rests there, relaxed, With new love. All I know of the Troubadours I bring to this bed. I do n.. | troubadors | Robert Bly | |
| 637be2b | Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive! Think... and think... while you are alive. What you call "salvation" belongs to the time before death. If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after? The idea that the soul will rejoin with the ecstatic just because the body is rotten-- that is all fantasy. What is found now is found then. If you find nothing n.. | Robert Bly | ||
| 3e35e0e | A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. A person whom one loves is a world, just as one knows oneself to be a world. | Rebecca Goldstein | ||
| 4440d30 | Yeah, you're right about having entire rooms full of film and photos... in that Sydney Mines house I have a darkroom, I have boxes of film and home movie footage... I have a few projectors, I have piles of Kodachrome slides... I like photographs. The world is always running away from society and the only way to keep the stuff that's happened in the past is by taking photographs, I can keep memories of things alive with photographs," Alecto .. | memories industrial polaroid steel-mill kodak coal-mine darkroom kodachrome cape-breton super-8 nova-scotia photograph smog photo digital coal pollution train capture film nostalgia | Rebecca McNutt | |
| 10428d0 | The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education. | Henry James | ||
| 8ecf15a | I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin. | Henry James | ||
| 05ad6e3 | She often wondered indeed if she ever had been, or ever could be, intimate with anyone. | Henry James | ||
| b51b228 | You young men have too many jokes. When there are no jokes you've nothing left. | Henry James | ||
| 663349a | their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. | inspiring teaching | Mark Helprin | |
| 4265049 | In the same way that certain sections of the city were mortal battlegrounds, some parts of the calendar were always more warlike than others, and during the days between Christmas and the new year all elements seemed to conspire to subdue the soul. Fire, rain, sickness, cold, and death were everywhere spread through the dark as in a painting of hell. People struggled until exhaustion, giving everything they had, and the days were packed wit.. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 5ae2d98 | But you won't abdicate." Of course not. It's my duty to go on, to maintain the line. I can't possibly fail in that. It's as if you and I were throwing a ball back and forth to establish a record, and had been doing so for a millennium. You cannot drop a ball that has remained airborne through good effort for most of a thousand years. You cannot stop an unlikely heart that has been beating for so long. I would rather die than betray continui.. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 68f4faf | this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth. | Mark Helprin | ||
| cfa6aa2 | Though Mrs. Gamely was by all measures prescientific and illiterate, she did know words. Where she got them was anyone's guess, but she certainly had them. Virginia speculated that the people on the north side of the lake, steeped in variations of English both tender and precise, had made with their language a tool with which to garden a perfect landscape. Those who are isolated in small settlements may not know of the complexities common t.. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 0e51f29 | Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given, and trembled in awe of the hand that was guiding him. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 2d85a9a | Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right. | Mark Helprin | ||
| 7c78ae2 | Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck. | Carl Hiaasen | ||
| b5e45c1 | Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 52bbac4 | I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 74947f5 | The snake who tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit was not the Devil, but her own instinctive nature saying, Honor your hunger and feed yourself. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 69ed9f5 | We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there very long. Sooner or later you have to look at your own reflection and decide what to do with yourself. We are urban people. We make periodic pilgrimages to the country. . . . If we align ourselves with the spirit of place we will find humility fused with joy. The land holds stories. | story | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 5e155ed | How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. | spirit imagination | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| b841d30 | To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. Words have a weight to them. How you choose to present them and to whom is a matter of style and choice. | words writer writing curiousity disvoery style ego | Terry Tempest Williams | |
| 8df844d | People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold, stand on, and stand for--Earth. My medium has been Earth. Earth in correspondence with my mind. | Terry Tempest Williams | ||
| 5faf176 | You would have to be half mad to dream me up." -Lewis Carroll" | E.K. Blair | ||
| e23ee0d | So it went. Bob was increasingly cynical, leery, uneasy; Jesse was increasingly cavalier, merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. If his gross anatomy suggested a strong smith in his twenties, his actual physical constitution was that of a man who was incrementally dying. He was sick with rheums and aches and lung congestions, he tilted against chairs and counters and walls, in cold weather he limped with a cane. He coughed incessantly when lying.. | Ron Hansen | ||
| c37b8ea | How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 932ffd2 | It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying, 'Come up again, dear!' I shall only look up and say, 'Who am I, then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up -- if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else' -- but, oh, dear! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 07b6045 | alys gft: "twy srzmyn m, gh yh mdt Twlny b sr`t bdwy, myrs~ bh yh jy dygh." mlkh qrmz gft: "chh srzmyn kwchyky! ynj byd b tmm sr`t bdwy t btwny hmwnj kh hsty bmwny." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| bdf0b3b | Mad Hatter: Am I going mad? Alice: Yes, you're mad, bonkers, off the top of your head...but...I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are. | inspiration thoughtful | Lewis Carroll | |
| 4ea0005 | They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's anyone left alive! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 2e6d2c8 | She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. | multiple-personality wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
| 5bcdd75 | Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 42685a6 | How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 93c9da9 | alys gft: "mn nmytwnm ynw bwr khnm." mlkhh gft: "yh br dygh tlsh khn. yh nfs `myq bkhsh w chshmtw bbnd. Hl s`y khn bwr khny." alys khndyd: "s`y khrdn fydh y ndrh. adm nmytwnh chyzy Gyrmmkhn rw bwr khnh." mlkhh gft:"khb bh khTr ynh khh khwb tmryn nkhrdy. mn wqty hmsn tw bwdm, hr rwz nym s`t tmryn mykhrdm. b`Dy wqt mytwnstm qbl z SbHnh shysh t chyz Gyrmmkhnw bwr khnm." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 17d5d2f | Is Life itself a dream, I wonder? | philosophical life question | Lewis Carroll | |
| 18fcc8a | I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!" the Queen said. "Twopence a week, and jam every other day." Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, "I don't want you to hire me - and I don't care for jam." "It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any today, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never today." "It must come sometimes to 'jam today.. | humour nonesense jam payment wonderland trickery trick | Lewis Carroll | |
| cdad4e7 | I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'because I'm not myself, you see. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 0253ed8 | It's a miserable story!" said Bruno. "It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief." "I haven't got it with me," Sylvie whispered. "Then I won't cry," said Bruno manfully." | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 28604ec | To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 8e378c9 | People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 2205eee | As we rely on God, and trust his Spirit to mold us in his image, true hope takes shape within us, "a hope that does not disappoint."We can literally become better persons because of suffering. Pain, however meaningless it may seem at the time, can be transformed. Where is God when it hurts? He is in us--not in the things that hurt--helping to transform bad into good.We can safely say that God can bring good out of evil; we cannot say that G.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 041fba1 | Please don't grow up to be one of those men who lie for the sport of it, and most men do. That's a fact. That's why the world is so messed up, Noah. That's why history books are full of so much heartache, and tragedy. Politicians, dictators, kings, phoney-baloney preachers-most of 'em are men, and most of 'em lie like rugs | men lie | Carl Hiaasen | |
| e91f5d2 | I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic. | spirituality religion isla-martin isla-and-the-happily-ever-after agnosticism christmas-tree christmas beliefs believe belief teen ya | Stephanie Perkins | |
| 2be492d | Anna es la unica persona que le llama por su nombre. El resto de nosotros lo llamamos por su apellido. St. Clair. No estoy segura de por que. Es solo una de esas cosas. | Stephanie Perkins |