Whit

“Wings can only fly
as long as the bird flies
Soul blackens when you
put on vestment of lies
White candle wax cries
for ignitable wick
Jealous people burn
to make your heart feel sick”
― Munia Khan

“Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar.…”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

“The first mystery was that the rows of candles under each of the statues of Jesus and Mary and Joseph were all flickering and trembling as if there were gusts of wind when in fact the vast church was shut tight and none of the heavy doors were open. I believed that the spirit of God in the statues was so strong it made the candles flutter and hiss, tremulous with suffering. Each tiny burst of light lit up the caked blood on Jesus’s bony white feet and it looked wet.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“One day at a time, and the day is His day; He hath numbered its hours, though they haste or delay. His grace is sufficient; we walk not alone; As the day, so the strength that He giveth His own.”
― Annie Johnson Flint, He Giveth More Grace: One Hundred Poems by Annie Johnson Flint