May 2013
“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as...”
– Franz Kafka; from a diary entry dated 23 March 1914.
“So much of space between us two
We kiss the planets when we kiss
No closeness...”
– Diane di Prima
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a...”
– Alan Watts
“You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you...”
– Walt Whitman, Song of Myself part 52
April 2013
“I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“Grace is wild. Grace unsettles everything. Grace overflows the banks. Grace...”
– Doug Wilson
“You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious...”
– Terence Mckenna
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
– Tom Waits
“Light clarity avocado salad in the morning
after all the terrible things I do...”
– Frank O’Hara
“No tree, it is said, can grow to Heaven unless its roots reach down to Hell.”
– Carl Jung
“We go into the trees and find a field of wildflowers. Singing, we pick, pick...”
– Laura Straub, from “Short Love Poem”
“The moon is a white strange world… The moon that pulls the tides, and the moon...”
– D.H. Lawrence, Introduction to The Dragon of the Apocalypse by Frederick Carter
“This thought keeps consoling me:
though tyrants may command that lamps be...”
– Faiz Ahmed Faiz, excerpt from “A Prison Evening”
“I’m now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I’m...”
– Arthur Rimbaud
“Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He...”
– Hermann Hesse
“You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.”
– Gautama Buddha
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to...”
– Ben Okri
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse...”
– Albert Camus
“I have endured so long
That I have forgotten everything;
Fear and suffering...”
– Arthur Rimbaud, Song from the Highest Tower
“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the...”
– Albert Einstein
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“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that...”
– Terence McKenna
