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“His words were then these as followeth: Know all men, he said, time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions. What means this? Desire’s wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time. Mark me now. In woman’s womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation. Omnis cam ad te veniet”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“Maybe happy memories can't involve people who were only strangers or casual friends. You can't be left alone, in your old age and pain, with memories that include only people who have forgotten you. The people in your happy memories have to be the same people who want to have you in their own happy memories.”
― The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
― The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
“The greatest happiness possible to a man ... is to become civilized, to know the pageant of the past, to love the beautiful, to have just ideas of values and proportions, and then retaining his animal spirits and appetites, to live in a wilderness, - J. Frank Dobie”
― Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION
― Wilderness and the American Mind - REVISED EDITION
“Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft,
Why fall ye thus before a little wind?”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Why fall ye thus before a little wind?”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
“Home can never be transferred; never repeated in the experience of an individual. The place consecrated by parental love, by the innocence and sports of childhood, by the first acquaintance with nature; by the linking of the heart to the visible creation, is the only home. There there is a living and breathing spirit infused into nature: every familiar object has a history—the trees have tongues, and the very air is vocal. There the vesture of decay doth not close in and control the noble functions of the soul. It sees and hears and enjoys without the ministry of gross material substance.”
― Hope Leslie, or Early Times in the Massachusetts, Vol. 1 of 2
― Hope Leslie, or Early Times in the Massachusetts, Vol. 1 of 2
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