Yu Kingcade

“Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

“which questions what is present only with regard to its presence.
In any case, one thing becomes clear: To raise the question of
aletheia, of unconcealment as such, is not the same as raising the
question of truth. For this reason, it was inadequate and misleading
to caU aletheia in the sense of opening, truth.5 The talk about the
"truth of Being" has a justified meaning in Hegel's Science of Logic,
because here truth means the certainty of absolute knowledge. But
Hegel also, as little as Husserl, as little as all metaphysics, does not
ask about Being as Being, that is, does not raise the question how
there can be presence as such. There is presence only when opening
is dominant. Opening is named with aletheia, unconcealment, but not thought as such.”
― Heidegger