Douglas

“Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,
just once. And never again. But to have been
this once, completely, even if only once:
to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”
― Pema Chödrön

“Facts are such horrid things!”
― Jane Austen, Lady Susan

“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”
― Claude Monet