July 2012
156 posts
“Remember, happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.”
—Ray Goodman
“… And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
—Carl Jung
Sleep, Princess
Sleep, Princess,
curled in your clean sheets
as the summer rain sings.
The fan spins infinite circles—
an adult’s mobile—
gentle Greek sirens
lulling slumber.
A Time to Talk
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hill I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.Robert Frost
My favorite high school teacher’s husband reads this poem on their answering machine. I think it’s cute.
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“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.”
—Annette Funicello (via justbesplendid)
“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
—Mark Victor Hansen (via justbesplendid)
“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it ‘got boring,’ the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
—Stephen King, On Writing
(via pigtailsandcombatboots)
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“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
—Claude Monet (via farewell-kingdom)
“The sound of rain is like the voices of tens of thousands of monks reading sutras.”
— Yukio Mishima (via therockofgibraltar)
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
—Plato (via justbesplendid)
