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"I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else."
- Diane Ackerman -
"Silence
is an ocean. Speech is a river."- Rumi -
"Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay;
I’m martyr to a motion not my own;
What’s freedom for? To know eternity.
I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
But who would count eternity in days?
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways)."- Theodore Roethke -
Coat
Sometimes I have wanted
to throw you off
like a heavy coat.Sometimes I have said
you would not let me
breathe or move.But now that I am free
to choose light clothes
or none at allI feel the cold
and all the time I think
how warm it used to be. -
"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."
- Saadi -
"Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea."- Dylan Thomas
only joy returns.
Oh! then you loved the world. Eternal ones, love it eternally and evermore; and to woe too, you say: go, but return! For all joy wants-- eternity.” -- Friedrich Nietzche
