Stirring Quotes

“Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again?”
― Anthony Liccione

“Indigo, the deep blue contains an abundance of sapphires shining their light through the density, awakening and stirring our consciousness. In the daylight the sea will change, but for now it remains mysterious, obtainable through our imagination.”
― Jennifer Lynch, Shades of Kefalonia: Meditations

“Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening”
― Matsuo Bashō, Lips Too Chilled

“She is stirring a pot of leben yogurt, which is heated slowly, carefully, tenderly, and hopefully, layered with butter and onions and heady and rich as a high summer night. She cannot stop stirring because it is a fragile, temperamental sauce, given to breaking and curdling if given its way. So she must wait and stand and stir and stir and stir and look and look.”
― Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent

“Geoff’s arm emanated with a solid warmth I longed for after our days aboard S.S.
British-Craphole.”
― Katherine McIntyre, An Airship Named Desire

“From somewhere off in the distance, a loon called into the ascending night. And drifting across the lake’s sleepy surface, it’s call lent both a stirring mystery and a gentle magic to the lake and the now drowsy forest that surrounded it. And I remember thinking that no song I have ever heard in the entirety of my life ever conveyed so much with so little.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough