t h e . t h i n g
“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any.”
~ Confucious
Category: poetry
A r t l e s s n e s s
“Love has wisdom enough to live unrestrained, and it is to whom and what she frees herself from that determines how well the integrity of her simplicity is spent.”
~ LmL
o r c h e s t r a t e d
… He’d transformed…
M n e m o s y n e
“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”
― John Green
d r e a m. a b o u t . . .
“My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.”
― Richard Bach
S C E N T | H E R
“To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning.”
― Dejan Stojanovic
C O N C E P T I O N
“We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.” – Orison Swett Marden
F R U I T C A K E S
“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
― Werner Heisenberg
R A D I A N C E
“Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;
Thyself from thine affection
Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye
All lesser birds will take their jollity.
Up, up, fair bride, and call
Thy stars from out their several boxes, take
Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make
Thyself a constellation of them all;
And by their blazing signify
That a great princess falls, but doth not die.
Be thou a new star, that to us portends
Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.”
― John Donne
C O U P L E T S
“There is a woman with keys to life hidden beneath her palms, that only a man of tender care can unveil in the season of his holding.”
– LmL
I N V I S I B L E . S I L K
The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the ‘Bombyx mori’, no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: ‘The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults no longer fly’.
– Jeffrey Eugenides
C Y C L O P E A N
“Most people feared the darkness. Some people feared, more wisely, the things within the darkness.
Gabriel feared both, and with good reason. He walked anyway. That had always been his way. He had a complicated history with the woodlands of the world. He’d met his share of the Cyclops and the Circes that lurked within.
And the world never seemed to run out of monsters.”
― Angela Panayotopulos
T R A N S F O R M A T I O N
“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
― Anais Nin
D E C A D E S
“Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love’s presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.”
― Paulo Coelho
W a t e r c o l o u r . O N . S k i n
“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”
― Joseph Conrad
P A I N . E V A P O R A T E S
“Water is sufficient… the spirit moves over water.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
C h e r r y | L o v e s | T o o
“Your life should always come with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top.”
― A.D. Posey
