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“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”
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“Keep your whiskers crisp and clean.
Do not let the mice grow lean.
Do not let yourself grow fat
Like a common kitchen cat.
Have you set the kittens free?
Do they sometimes ask for me?
Is our catnip growing tall?
Did you patch the garden wall?
Clouds are gentle walls that hide
Gardens on the other side.
Tell the tabby cats I take
All my meals with William Blake,
Lunch at noon tea at four,
Served in splendor on the shore
At the tinkling of a bell.
Tell them I am sleeping well.
Tell them I have come so far,
Brought by Blake's celestial cat,
Buffeted by wind and rain,
I may not get home again.
Take this message to my friends.
Say the King of Catnip sends
To the cat who winds his clocks
A thousand sunsets in a box,
To the cat who brings the ice
The shadows of a dozen mice
(serve them with assorted dips
and eat them like potato chips),
And to the cat who guards his door
A net for catching stars, and more
(if patience he abide):
Catnip from the other side.”
―
Do not let the mice grow lean.
Do not let yourself grow fat
Like a common kitchen cat.
Have you set the kittens free?
Do they sometimes ask for me?
Is our catnip growing tall?
Did you patch the garden wall?
Clouds are gentle walls that hide
Gardens on the other side.
Tell the tabby cats I take
All my meals with William Blake,
Lunch at noon tea at four,
Served in splendor on the shore
At the tinkling of a bell.
Tell them I am sleeping well.
Tell them I have come so far,
Brought by Blake's celestial cat,
Buffeted by wind and rain,
I may not get home again.
Take this message to my friends.
Say the King of Catnip sends
To the cat who winds his clocks
A thousand sunsets in a box,
To the cat who brings the ice
The shadows of a dozen mice
(serve them with assorted dips
and eat them like potato chips),
And to the cat who guards his door
A net for catching stars, and more
(if patience he abide):
Catnip from the other side.”
―
“Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.”
― Telling Time: Angels, Ancestors, And Stories
― Telling Time: Angels, Ancestors, And Stories
“It is time to turn on the moon.
It is time to live by a different light.”
― Household Tales Of Moon And Water: Poems
It is time to live by a different light.”
― Household Tales Of Moon And Water: Poems
“Our house is quiet, small and plain,
and yet its rooms run far and wide.
A hundred pencils, swift as rain,
writing on sheets of beaten gold
would not be quick enough to hold
the strange adventures
shadows hide...”
― The Tale I Told Sasha
and yet its rooms run far and wide.
A hundred pencils, swift as rain,
writing on sheets of beaten gold
would not be quick enough to hold
the strange adventures
shadows hide...”
― The Tale I Told Sasha
“Clouds are gentle walls that hide
Gardens on the other side
Tell the tabby cats I take
All my meals with William Blake
Lunch at noon and tea at four
Served in splendor on the shore
at the tinkling of a bell.
Tell them I am sleeping well.”
― A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
Gardens on the other side
Tell the tabby cats I take
All my meals with William Blake
Lunch at noon and tea at four
Served in splendor on the shore
at the tinkling of a bell.
Tell them I am sleeping well.”
― A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
“In this vale of tears we must take what we're sent, feathery, leathery, lovely or bent.”
― Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch
― Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch
