Patry

“No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Oh, she say. God loves all them feelings. That's some of the best stuff God did. And when you know God loves 'em you enjoys 'em a lot more. You can just relax, go with everything that's going, and praise God by liking what you like.
God don't think it dirty? I ast.
Naw, she say. God made it. Listen, God love everything you love-- and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.
You saying God vain? I ast.
Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
What it do when it pissed off? I ast.
Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
Yeah? I say.
Yeah, she say. It always making little surprises and springing them on us when us least expect.
You mean it want to be loved, just like the bible say.
Yes, Celie, she say. Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Well, us talk and talk about God, but I'm still adrift. Trying to chase that old white man out of my head. I been so busy thinking bout him I never truly notice nothing God make. Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not the color purple (where it come from?). Not the little wildflowers. Nothing.
Now that my eyes opening, I feels like a fool. ”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Vase

[Why weep

Come back tomorrow

There are also poisonous flowers

and flowers always open in the evening

she loves the cinema

she has been in Russia

Love married with disdain

Pearl-studded watch

a trip to Montrouge

Maisons- Lafitte

and everything finishes in perfumes

remember

Let the flower bloom and let the fruit rot

and let the grain sprout

while the storms rage]”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln