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#1

“my heart has no bones,
so, I wonder --
what is it that keeps it from collapsing in on itself
Love -- the same Love the that pulls me out of gentle slumber,
calls me into the shape of its desires, and holds me true….”
― Kate Mullane Robertson

tags: bones, demands, form, heart, love, shape, structure

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#2

“I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you flushed with exertion and rosy with sleep. I want you teasing and provocative, somber and thoughtful. I want every emotion, every mood, every year in a lifetime to come. I want you beside me, to encourage and argue with me, to help me and let me help you. I want to be your champion and lover, your mentor and student.”
― Connie Brockway, The Bridal Season

tags: forever, love, romance, soulmates, sweet

63 likes

#3

“The plants and flowers
I raised about my hut
I now surrender
To the will
Of the wind”
― Ryokan

tags: old-songs, parenthood, sword-sentiments, transcendence, wind

37 likes

#4

“There are bones
waiting for names in the graveyards.

Even the sun above us is dying, one
landed repetition of light at a time.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

tags: bones, graveyards, light, poetry, waiting

4 likes

#5

“A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn't vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?”
― Mechthild of Magdeburg, Meditations from Mechthild of Magdeburg

tags: atman, god, inner-nature, transcendence, wind

44 likes

#6

“For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all:

nothing false and possible is love
(who's imagined,therefore limitless)
love's to giving as to keeping's give;
as yes is to if,love is to yes”
― E.E. Cummings, I : Six Nonlectures

30 likes

#7

“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

tags: character, forgiveness, grudge, grudges, holding-grudges, move-on, moving-on, owe, owed, peace, peace-of-mind, revenge, strength, strength-of-character, substance, substantial, unforgiving, vengeance

1290 likes

#8

“Studying texts and stiff meditation can make you lose your Original Mind.
A solitary tune by a fisherman, though, can be an invaluable treasure.
Dusk rain on the river, the moon peeking in and out of the clouds;
Elegant beyond words, he chants his songs night after night.”
― Ikkyu

tags: old-songs, tao, transcendence

39 likes

#9

“All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be anything we like, as long as we like, and, when we are tired of it, pull up stakes and move on. Travel -- the solitude of the mountains, the emptiness of the desert, the delicacy of the minaret; eternal change, limitless contrast, unending variety.' (Eric Lang)”
― Robert Edison Fulton Jr., One Man Caravan

tags: artist, daily-life, discovere, eternal-change, glory, hopes, move-on, philopher, poet, scientist, travel, traveling, travels, what-we-want

19 likes

#10

“As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: authority, boss, crown, deadlines, demands, drained, exhausted-worn-out, king, leadership, overworked, pressures, redundant, stress, tiresome, weary

10 likes

#11

“The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.”
― Sara Sheridan, London Calling

tags: body, bones, fog, lamp, smog, weather

3 likes

#12

“As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

tags: bones, choice, love, rain, skin, soaked

78 likes

#13

“I wanted to write “stay”
on your sides, surround
your bed with oceans
of salt.
I hope he folds you
into a fox, loves you
like a splintered arrow,
brandishes the kill
of your lips.
May the bouquet
of your hips wither.
May the wolves
forget your name.”
― J. Bradley

tags: good-night, j-bradley

27 likes

#14

“I wish you water.”
― Wallace J. Nichols, Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do

tags: happiness, inspirational-quotes, neuropsychology, relaxation, romance, water

9 likes

#15

“What a great genius this water is! It has thousands of different beautiful faces: It is a rainbow, an ocean, a lake, an iceberg, a waterfall, a river, a drop, a fog… What a great genius this water is!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: water

2 likes

#16

“Rejoice with glitters of ashes tonight
Sparkling for moon's spiced silver bite
Upon skin of darkness, loving night more
Storm begins unlocking cold wind's door”
― Munia Khan

tags: ash, ashes, bite, bites, cold, dark, darkness, darkness-and-light, door, glitter, glittering, loving, moon, moon-magic, moonlight, night, night-sky, nights, poem, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, rejoice, silver, skin, sparkle, sparkling, sparkling-darkness, spice, storm, storms, tonight, unlock, unlocked, wind

22 likes

#17

“There is a moon,
that rests in the quiet corners
of a lover’s lips.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

tags: corner, deep-love, deep-thoughts, depth, free-verse, full-moon, indian-authors, lips, love, love-quotes, lover, lovers, moon, moon-magic, moonlight, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, quiet, quietness, rest

54 likes

#18

“She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth.”
― Roman Payne, Hope and Despair

tags: amour, love, nymph, ode, pastoral, pastorale, payne, roman, roman-payne, sleeping, sunlight

50 likes

#19

“Monsters don't always lurk in the shadows. Sometimes they hide in plain sight.”
― Belle Aurora, Raw

tags: 2014, raw, twitch

389 likes

#20

“There was no opiate like a French pillow.”
― David McCullough, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

tags: comfort, rest, sleep, travel

5 likes

#21

“I was a tongue, a gazette. The bearer of "the truth of the whispers."
I knew of hollowed books, trunks with false bottoms, and the meanders of secret corridors. I knew how to open hidden drawers in your escritoire, how to unseal your letter and make you think no one had touched it. If I had been in your room, I left the hair around your lock the way you had tied it. If you trusted the silence of the night, I had overheard your secrets.”
― Eva Stachniak, The Winter Palace

tags: spy

5 likes

#22

“No sane person resists the smell of the soil when sprinkled with water,
Especially the smell of the intercourse between earth and rain.”
― Nomthandazo Tsembeni

tags: intercourse, rain, resist, sanity, smell, water

1 likes

#23

“In my biology class, we'd talked about the definition of life: to be classified as a living creature, a thing needs to eat, breathe, reproduce, and grow. Dogs do, rocks don't, trees do, plastic doesn't. Fire, by that definition, is vibrantly alive. It eats everything from wood to flesh, excreting the waste as ash, and it breathes air just like a human, taking in oxygen and emitting carbon. Fire grows, and as it spreads, it creates new fires that spread out and make new fires of their own. Fire drinks gasoline and excretes cinders, it fights for territory, it loves and hates. Sometimes when I watch people trudging through their daily routines, I think that fire is more alive than we are–brighter, hotter, more sure of itself and where it wants to go. Fire doesn't settle; fire doesn't tolerate; fire doesn't 'get by.'
Fire does.
Fire is.”
― Dan Wells, I Am Not a Serial Killer

tags: fire, pyro, pyromania, pyromaniac

135 likes

#24

“But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient forest began to smoke. By morning there was a mass of booming, fiery tongues, a hissing, crashing, howling all around, half the sky black with smoke, and the bloodied sun just barely visible.

And what can little men do with their spades, ditches, and pails? The forest is no more, it was devoured by fire: stumps and ash. Perhaps illimitable fields will be plowed here one day, perhaps some new, unheard-of wheat will ripen here and men from Arkansas with shaven faces will weigh in their palms the heavy golden grain. Or perhaps a city will grow up-alive with ringing sound and motion, all stone and crystal and iron-and winged men will come here flying over seas and mountains from all ends of the world. But never again the forest, never again the blue winter silence and the golden silence of summer. And only the tellers of tales will speak in many-colored patterned words about what had been, about wolves and bears and stately green-coated century-old grandfathers, about old Russia; they will speak about all this to us who have seen it with our own eyes ten years - a hundred years! - ago, and to those others, the winged ones, who will come in a hundred years to listen and to marvel at it all as at a fairy tale. ("In Old Russia")”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories

tags: fire, forest-fire, future, russia, time

9 likes

#25

“The universe is math on fire.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

tags: belief, fire, math, numbers, theory, universe

6 likes

#26

“The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

69 likes

#27

“poetry. i am not writing it.
(make way for me please)
it is my skin. dripping with light.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: creative-process, creativity, expression, light, mystical, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, skin, words, writers, writing

6 likes

#28

“What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich

tags: art, beauty, inspiration, lovely

36 likes

#29

“It rains
And rains
And rains.
But there is a sky above the rain,
Nothing can rot the sky.
Earth has turned to mud. What of it?
The heart of the planet is made of fire, of ardent sun.
(from "A Rainy Day")”
― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

tags: earth, fire, rain, sun

50 likes

#30

“Water runs if you try to grasp it, but pours onto an open hand.”
― The Silver Elves, The Elven Way: The Magical Path of the Shining Ones

tags: elves, mystical, philosophy, quotes-of-the-day, quotes-on-life, quotes-to-live-by, sacred-teachings

7 likes

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