Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black Quotes

“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.”
― Aberjhani, Collected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms
the diseased slums of a broken heart
into a palace made of psalms and gold.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.”
― Aberjhani, Collected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“When all the lights fold back into their silence,
in a place secret and safe, warm and fragrant like stars,
you will realize without thought, or sound or color,
that for one second I stood knee-deep inside your heart.
You had gone looking for a friend, and one had found you.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams...”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black