Easy Quotes

“Burn, or speak your mind. For the oak to untruss its passion it must explode as fire or leaves.”
― Marie Ponsot, Easy

“As passion’s object, dig with your ampersand: be cold & hot. The receptive earth will come to transform the root-end that your planting hand cut & abandoned, to new chrysanthemum. Heartfelt thought, drop your guard, keep clear, be slow; double your careful opposites & grow.”
― Marie Ponsot, Easy

“Only to themselves are the passionate hot. To the objects of their passion they are cold. What Yeats knew. They eradicate what they notice, as the thumb hard-crams the clay impressionable under it, to lie flat, apt to the shape their cold-steel scribes may cut or spurn it to. Yet they know passion must drown to ripen sweet & give fair play to the whole life hot passion speeds us from.”
― Marie Ponsot, Easy

“As the music stops you’ll miss its lilt. Keep dancing, keep listening. Speak up. Ask for more music, more. In case you don’t know, what you want is magnificent, yours for the asking, the rhythm of magnanimous exchange.”
― Marie Ponsot, Easy

“Sight likes travel which likes fresh surprises. Self likes surprise that undoes old disguises.”
― Marie Ponsot, Easy

“LAST Waste-pipe sweat, unchecked, has stained the floor under the kitchen sink. For twenty years it’s eased my carelessness into a mean soft place, its dirty secret dark, in a common place. Today the pipe’s fixed. Workmen rip up the floor that’s served and nagged me all these good/bad years. They cut and set in new boards, to last for years. House-kept no more, I waltz out of the place clean-shod and leave no footprint on the floor, displaced and unfloored. This year, nothing goes to waste.”
― Marie Ponsot, Easy