Nathan > Nathan's Quotes

“The wildness of the flower is all in the tone”
― Fanny Howe

“In a pine tree,
A few yards away from my window sill,
A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and down,
On a branch.
I laugh, as I see him abandon himself
To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do
That the branch will not break.”
― James Wright, The Branch Will Not Break

“The sky is full of silver and gold./ Try to hide the sun./ It can't be done./ Least not for long.”
― Townes Van Zandt

“In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.”
― Bob Dylan

“Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”
― Walt Whitman

“Among days// Having only the force/ Of days//Most simple/ Most difficult”
― George Oppen

“I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love.”
― Virgil

“The meaning of the world, said Wittgenstein, is outside the world. Events and values are distinguishable only in relation to others. A totality of events and values, the world itself, requires another.”
― Guy Davenport

“Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.”
― Guy Davenport

“Nothing matter but the quality/ of the affection—/in the end—that has carved the trace in the mind dove sta memoria”
― Ezra Pound

“Things have ends (or scopes) and beginnings. To/ know what precedes and what follows will assist yr/ comprehension of process.”
― Ezra Pounds

“Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every word was once a poem.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All nature awakes to life and activity.”
― William Bartram

“Sounds come/ to the ear,// transformed.”
― Ronald Johnson

“The word ‘color’ means at its origin to ‘cover’ or ‘hide.’ Matter eats up light and ‘covers’ it with a confusion of color.”
― Robert Smithson

“To wander solitary there:
Two paradises ‘twere in one
To live in paradise alone.”
― Andrew Marvell