February 2012
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“Fire is the underlying element: the world is an ever-living fire.”
– Heraclitus
hintersatz:
I know it’s long (almost 10...
“If you do not hope, you will not find that which is not hoped for; since it is...”
– Heracletus, ca 500 B.C.E.
“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
– Voltaire (1694-1778)
“I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.”
– Nikos Kazantzakis
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“DRINKING THE SUN OF CORINTH…”
Drinking the sun of Corinth Reading the marble ruins Striding across vineyards and seas Sighting along the harpoon A votive fish that slips away I found the leaves that the sun’s psalm memorizes The living land that passion joys in opening. I drink water, cut fruit, Thrust my hand into the wind’s foliage The lemon trees water the summer pollen The...
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“An artist knows a great deal, but he only knows it afterwards.”
– Paul Klee
“I paint in order not to cry.”
– Paul Klee
actias luna
m3zzaluna:
once, when i was young, an old man told me the moon was made of moths. that’s why it rises, he said, and falls, and why sometimes pieces disappear, flying off to pollinate the stars.
— thedustdancestoo
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
– Khalil Gibran Read more: (via yama-bato)
“Art is the highest form of hope.”
– Gerhard Richter (via artnotartnot)
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“Naga is one of a handful of rare words surviving the loss of the first universal language. In Buddhism, Wisdom has always been tied, symbolically, to the figure of the Serpent. In the Western Tradition it can be found as used by the Christ in the Gospel of Saint Matthew (10:16), “Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”
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