“The planet does not need more ‘successful people.’ The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture is the set.”
—
Tenzin Gyatso
“Someone, / Who claimed to have known me years before, // Approached, saying there were many poets / Wandering around who wished to be alive again. / They were ready to say the words they had been unable to say– // Words whose absence had been the silence of love,”
— Mark Strand, from “XLV,” Dark Harbor: A Poem (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994)
“I waited in a world of magic,”
— Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky, from “Smells Of Good Food,”
sea: healing, cleansing, banishing, protection
rain: power over time, growth, rebirth
river: movement, energy, warding, powering tools
ocean: vastness, power, life, fear, focus
storm: force, emotional charge, motivation, cursing
snow: slowing, purity, ending, resolutions, change
dew: delicate magic, love magic, glamour, fae work, fertility
pond: spirituality, richness, unknown, stillness
“Only that day dawns to which
we are awake.”
Thoreau, Walden
MuteMath // Sooner or Later
“Beautiful, you said. You said I was beautiful, and when you said it, I was.”
— Sandra Cisneros, from Woman at Hollering Creek: Stories; “Never Marry a Mexican,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)
Constantine (2005) dir. Francis Lawrence
Anonymous asked:
karamazovdmitri answered:
hey so this is a question i get asked quite often, so you know what? i made yall a handy chart
I have rested
my hand on the beloved’s head. As with
regret—so, too, with prayer. His
skull; my hand. There’s
a trembling inside the both of us,
there’s a trembling, inside us both.
— Carl Phillips, from “Last Night,” Reconnaissance
