Stephen Shilling

“I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received.”
― Antonio Porchia

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning