“when i stood alone on the gentle swell of the prairies in my youth and felt the sting or caress of the wind and held my head to the skies and breathed the hope of the blue and white and gold of the freedom above the horizon i was less alone than i have everContinue reading “in other words // sweet solitude”
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in other words // hope
“i’m soft, i dream too. i let myself dream… it could happen. i’m ready. i’ve watched snails climb over ten foot walls and vanish.” -bukowski, “on the continent” the undisciplined tongue
in other words // snow
“perhaps all the snow in the world will fall, burying everything, such silence, and then i will come out of it in the spring, different, cleaner, not born again so much as built up.” -rick bass, winter the undisciplined tongue
in other words // roots
“are we misled by the fact that we move freely on the earth and are not rooted to it in the same way as trees to the ground or fingers to the hand?”-alan watts, cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown the undisciplined tongue
in other words // art
“a work of art must be done with the heart. a sort of love affair between artist and reader—it is more than an expression of consciousness. it is dawn expressed—and expressed with such sweetness and understanding, that it finds the other’s heart—and makes a dawn in it too.” -kahlil gibran, beloved prophet