“There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.”
– Herman Melville
Art by Michael Cheval.
Immortality
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Category Archives: Quote
May I kiss you then?
“May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.”
– Franz Kafka
Art by Marc Chagall.
Protest
‘In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.”
– Phil Ochs
Art – Martin Johnson Heade – Blue Morpho Butterfly
As if …
“As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (…) You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.”
– Julio Cortázar
Art by Vincent Willem Van Gogh.
Dance first
Frozen heart
“At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love ― just enough to feed the birds.”
― Henry Miller
Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
“What I see is nothing – I want what it hides – that is not nothing.”
– Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966 / First edition cover
Love
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
– Adyashanti
Art by Vladimir Kush.
Hope
I’ve always felt that one of the most devastating states of mind is the absence of hope. And that is a condition that envelops a goodly number of people everywhere. And when you make drama of that condition, it’s almost as if words are not necessary.
– SIDNEY POITIER, 1992
Art by Christian Schloe.
O, the month of May
“O, the month of May, the merry month of May,
So frolic and so green, so green, so green!
O, and then did I unto my true love say,
Sweet Peg, thou shalt be my Summer’s Queen…”
From an Elizabethan poem
Art by Brian Froud.
