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  • #1
    Pablo Neruda
    “With a chaste heart
    With pure eyes I celebrate your beauty
    Holding the leash of blood
    So that it might leap out and trace your outline
    Where you lie down in my Ode
    As in a land of forests or in surf
    In aromatic loam, or in sea music

    Beautiful nude
    Equally beautiful your feet
    Arched by primeval tap of wind or sound
    Your ears, small shells
    Of the splendid American sea
    Your breasts of level plentitude
    Fulfilled by living light
    Your flying eyelids of wheat
    Revealing or enclosing
    The two deep countries of your eyes

    The line your shoulders have divided into pale regions
    Loses itself and blends into the compact halves of an apple
    Continues separating your beauty down into two columns of
    Burnished gold
    Fine alabaster
    To sink into the two grapes of your feet
    Where your twin symmetrical tree burns again and rises
    Flowering fire
    Open chandelier
    A swelling fruit
    Over the pact of sea and earth

    From what materials
    Agate?
    Quartz?
    Wheat?
    Did your body come together?
    Swelling like baking bread to signal silvered hills
    The cleavage of one petal
    Sweet fruits of a deep velvet
    Until alone remained
    Astonished
    The fine and firm feminine form

    It is not only light that falls over the world spreading inside your body
    Yet suffocate itself
    So much is clarity
    Taking its leave of you
    As if you were on fire within

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

  • #7
    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    Alexandre Dumas

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    Oprah Winfrey

  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #11
    Patrick Ness
    “You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
    Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  • #12
    Dejan Stojanovic
    “My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.”
    Dejan Stojanovic

  • #13
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

  • #14
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”
    Kahlil Gibran, Mirrors of the Soul

  • #15
    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
    “I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”
    Eve Ensler, I Am an Emotional Creature

  • #16
    Sarah   Williams
    “[The Old Astronomer to His Pupil]

    Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,
    When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet;
    He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how
    We are working to completion, working on from then to now.

    Pray remember that I leave you all my theory complete,
    Lacking only certain data for your adding, as is meet,
    And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,
    And the obloquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.

    But, my pupil, as my pupil you have learned the worth of scorn,
    You have laughed with me at pity, we have joyed to be forlorn,
    What for us are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles;
    What for us the Goddess Pleasure with her meretricious smiles.

    You may tell that German College that their honor comes too late,
    But they must not waste repentance on the grizzly savant's fate.
    Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

    What, my boy, you are not weeping? You should save your eyes for sight;
    You will need them, mine observer, yet for many another night.
    I leave none but you, my pupil, unto whom my plans are known.
    You 'have none but me,' you murmur, and I 'leave you quite alone'?

    Well then, kiss me, -- since my mother left her blessing on my brow,
    There has been a something wanting in my nature until now;
    I can dimly comprehend it, -- that I might have been more kind,
    Might have cherished you more wisely, as the one I leave behind.

    I 'have never failed in kindness'? No, we lived too high for strife,--
    Calmest coldness was the error which has crept into our life;
    But your spirit is untainted, I can dedicate you still
    To the service of our science: you will further it? you will!

    There are certain calculations I should like to make with you,
    To be sure that your deductions will be logical and true;
    And remember, 'Patience, Patience,' is the watchword of a sage,
    Not to-day nor yet to-morrow can complete a perfect age.

    I have sown, like Tycho Brahe, that a greater man may reap;
    But if none should do my reaping, 'twill disturb me in my sleep
    So be careful and be faithful, though, like me, you leave no name;
    See, my boy, that nothing turn you to the mere pursuit of fame.

    I must say Good-bye, my pupil, for I cannot longer speak;
    Draw the curtain back for Venus, ere my vision grows too weak:
    It is strange the pearly planet should look red as fiery Mars,--
    God will mercifully guide me on my way amongst the stars.”
    Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

  • #17
    Sarah   Williams
    “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

  • #18
    Charlie Lovett
    “A good book is like a good friend. It will stay with you for the rest of your life. When you first get to know it, it will give you excitement and adventure, and years later it will provide you with comfort and familiarity. And best of all, you can share it with your children or your grandchildren or anyone you love enough to let into its secrets.”
    Charlie Lovett, First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen
    tags: books

  • #19
    Charlie Lovett
    “If you mail a rare stamp it becomes worthless. If you drink a rare bottle of wine, you're left with some recycling. But if you read a rare book it's still there, it's still valuable, and it's achieved the full measure of it's being. A book is to read, whether it's worth five pounds or five thousand pounds”
    Charlie Lovett, First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

  • #20
    Charlie Lovett
    “What he wanted was to find that world-within-the-world where he could be himself by himself.”
    Charlie Lovett, The Bookman’s Tale

  • #21
    Jane E. Menning
    “One way or another, we all live on the moon.”
    Jane E. Menning, Der Mond auf ihren Schultern: Meer der Kälte

  • #22
    Jane E. Menning
    “Auf die eine oder andere Art leben wir doch alle auf dem Mond.”
    Jane E. Menning

  • #23
    Jane E. Menning
    “Shaneproof”
    Jane E. Menning, Der Mond auf ihren Schultern: Meer der Kälte

  • #24
    Jane E. Menning
    “Vielleicht war das die dunkle Seite unseres Mondes. Ich musste sie aushalten, denn offensichtlich sollte ich in dieser Dunkelheit laufen lernen, ohne ständig gegen meine Ängste zu stoßen und mir eine Wunde nach der nächsten zuzuziehen.”
    Jane E. Menning, Der Mond auf ihren Schultern: Meer der Kälte

  • #25
    Jane E. Menning
    “Sein Gesicht war so perfekt, so rein und makellos, als wäre es gemalt, erschaffen von einem begnadeten Künstler, der nie an etwas anderes gedacht hatte als an ihn. Ich betrachtete seine Lippen und zeichnete sie in Gedanken nach. Sie waren geschwungen wie die Kurven eines Herzens, wild und natürlich, so wenig künstlich wie die brechenden Wellen auf seiner Haut oder mein Lächeln auf seinem Herzen.”
    Jane E. Menning, Der Mond auf ihren Schultern: Meer der Kälte

  • #26
    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #27
    Vincent van Gogh
    “A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #28
    “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it...”
    Wilferd Peterson

  • #29
    James Baldwin
    “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
    James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time



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