January 2011
“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful,...”
– Adam Smith (via azspot) (via the-broom-cupboard)
“All great deeds and all great thoughts
have a ridiculous beginning. Great works...”
Sunday in Bangkok: Complete tanka series
Raindrops, tenacious, tentative on bamboo twigs, seeming a promise, cling for an eternity all their own and then are gone. Another pebble shining in the flowing stream, one among many. The current passes over, enhanced by, enhancing each. Ridiculous sight: fat roof-top dog, sweatered, basking in the sun. For the first time in too long, I find that I am smiling. It begins again, then stops short,...
COULEURS: The cage →
yama-bato:
In the waking night The forests have stopped growing The shells are listening The shadows in the pools turn grey The pearls dissolve in the shadow And I return to you Your face is marked upon the clockface, My hands are beneath your hair And if the time you mark sets free the birds And if they…
“What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
— Jack...”
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose...”
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown,...”
– William Blake/aperfectcommotion (via thelittlesea)
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
– Janus Arony. (via quote-book)
You ask my thoughts
through the long night?
I spent it listening
to the heavy rain
beating against the windows.
—Izumi Shikibu
“be it peace or happiness
let it enfold you”
— Charles Bukowski”
“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”
– Henry Miller (via thelittlesea)
“Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can’t Live It. I can’t even explain. I know...”
– — Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters (via bunnymitford) (via awritersruminations, bunnymitford) (via libraryland)
“Move and the way will open”
– Zen Proverb (via yama-bato)
“With two thousand years of Christianity behind him… a man can’t see...”
“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the...”
““The little prince went away, to look again at the roses....”
