Apphia

“The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;”
― Galway Kinnell

“My neighbour's blinds were down. What were their dreams and nightmares? How different it would be to see them now, slack in the jaw, bodies open. We might be able to say something truthful to one another instead of the usual rolled-up Goodmornings.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― PROUST Marcel -

“Man knows how to cry from birth, but laughter takes some learning.”
― Max Pallenberg, Austrian singer