Another Angry Reader

“This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything--as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“It was in my flaws, I found a much deeper truth and it is from them, I bloom ..a black rose.”
― Segovia Amil

“Do not talk any more. Do not speak.
Do not break silence until
We are weary of each other.
Let our fingers run like steel
Carving the contours of our bodies’ gold.
Do not speak. My face sinks
In the clotted summer of your hair.
The sound of the bees stops.
Stillness falls like a cloud.
Be still. Let your body fall away
Into the awe filled silence
Of the fulfilled summer —
Back, back, infinitely away —
Our lips weak, faint with stillness.

from “When We with Sappho”
― Kenneth Rexroth

“When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving for beautiful things.”
― Anaïs Nin, Nearer the Moon: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1937-1939