Pashmina

“The verse is mine but friend, when you declaim it,
It seems like yours, so grievously you maim it.”
― Martial, Selections from Martial's Epigrams

“Porque trazia a minha alma despedaçada e ensanguentada, incapaz de ser levada por mim, e não encontrara onde colocá-la.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confissões de Santo Agostinho

“The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside -

The Brain is deeper than the sea -
For- hold them - Blue to Blue -
The one the other will absorb -
As Sponges - Buckets - do -

The Brain is just the weight of God -
For - Heft them - Pound for Pound -
And they will differ - if they do -
As Syllable from Sound.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson