solringe

“I had read it some time ago but was so completely immersed that I retained nothing. This has been an intermittent, lifelong enigma. Through early adolescence I sat and read for hours in a small grove of weed trees near the railroad track in Germantown. Like Gumby I would enter a book wholeheartedly and sometimes venture so deeply it was as if I were living within it. I finished many books in such a manner there, closing the covers ecstatically yet having no memory of the content by the time I returned home. This disturbed me but I kept this strange affliction to myself. I look at the covers of such books and their contents remain a mystery that I cannot bring myself to solve. Certain books I loved and lived within yet cannot remember.”
― Patti Smith, M Train

“I hate being confined, especially when it's for my own good.”
― Patti Smith, M Train

“Anxious for some permanency, I guess I needed to be reminded how temporal permanency is.”
― Patti Smith, M Train: A Memoir

“فاعلم أنِّى لا أُحبُّ فيها شيئًا مُعينًا أستطيعُ أن أُشيرَ إليهِ بهذا أو هذهِ أو ذلكَ أو تلك ؛ و لا "بهؤلاءِ" كلها ... إنَّـمـا أُحـبُّـها لأنها هي هي ، كما هي هي ، فإنَّ في كلِّ عاشِقٍ معنى مجهولاً لا يحدهُ عِلمٌ و لا تصفه معرفة ، و هو كالمصباحِ المُنطَفيءِ يَنتظرُ مَن يُضيئُهُ لِيُضيء ، فلا يُنقِصهُ إلا من فيه قِدْحَةُ النُّورِ أو شرارةُ النَّـار.”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, رسائل الأحزان