Patty

“At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure.”
― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

“We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.”
― René Char, Leaves of Hypnos

“The cock crowing in the milky dawn thinks its call raises the sun; the child howling in a closed room thinks its cries open the door. But the sun and the mother go their own way, following the laws of their beings. Those who see us, even though we cannot see ourselves, opened the door for us, answering our puerile calculations, our unsteady desires, and our awkward efforts with a generous welcome.”
― René Daumal, Mount Analogue