July 2012
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“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via passade)
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“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned...”
– John Green, Paper Towns (via larmoyante)
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June 2012
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“The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely,...”
– Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook (via litverve)
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“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
—John Steinbeck, from Of Mice and Men (Covici Friede, 1937)
Thank you, apoetreflects.
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“Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.”
– Eckhart Tolle (via emotional-algebra)
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A Poet Reflects: “Have you ever heard..." →
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you’re...
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“There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened.”
– Thaddeus Golas (via bodhisattvaquotes)
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“I would say the cultivation of silence is indispensable to being human. People...”
– How Silence Works: Emailed Conversations With Four Trappist Monks | The Awl (via silencesounds)
Amazing article.
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“The world was so new that many things still lacked names, and to mention them,...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Harper & Row, 1970. (via amiquote)
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