February 2011
26 posts
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is a wolf in me…I keep the wolf because the wilderness gave it to me, and the wilderness will not let it go. - Carl Sandburg
Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. - Aldous Huxley
She smiles into corners. She smooths the hair of the grass. The moon has lost her memory.
- T.S. Eliot
Curiosity, futility. I like the the word…To me it suggests something altogether different: it evokes “concern”; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; an acute sense of the real which, however, never becomes fixed; a readiness to find our surroundings strange and singular; a certain relentlessness in ridding ourselves of our familiarities and looking at...
