Shogh

“For I shall learn from flower and leaf,
That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold.”
― Sara Teasdale

“Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.”
― Santoka Taneda, Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda

“Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.”
― Susan Sontag, Literature Is Freedom