I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat … Continue reading Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
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Personified Flame: Campfire Imps, Set 1
This week I am sharing a series of photos which I took at our campfire near Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado last June. Looking at them, I not only remember a beautiful, cool summer night at just over 8,000 feet in elevation, but I enjoy making out figures and creatures in the flames. These … Continue reading Personified Flame: Campfire Imps, Set 1
Quote for Today: Harold Monro
Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn: It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond Stares. And you sing, you sing. That star-enchanted song falls through the air From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound, Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground; And all the night … Continue reading Quote for Today: Harold Monro
Quote for Today: Alfred Noyes
Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose! Every song that the skylark sung Once, we thought, must come to a close: Now we know the spirit of song, Song that is merged in the chant of the whole, Hand in hand as we wander along, What should we doubt of … Continue reading Quote for Today: Alfred Noyes
Quote for Today: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Sanober Khan
Love, be mystical as the flickering blue flame of night as the fully-awoken moon beneath cobwebs of passing clouds amidst chanting high-tides fuzzy, as my blanket big enough to illuminate a hundred thousand billion galaxies and just small enough to fit into my embrace. ―Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Sappho
Then you my goddess with your immortal lips smiling Would ask what now afflicts me, why again I am calling and what now I with my restive heart Desired: Whom now shall I beguile To bring you to her love? Who now injures you, Sappho? For if she flees, soon shall she chase And, rejecting gifts, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Sappho
Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
Writers possess magic. It's in their words. They compose phrases as powerful as incantations, creating illusions in the minds of readers. These spells make eyes envision things that aren't real; they make hearts feel things that aren't actual. A writer's work is to pen enchantments meant to entrance and hypnotize the mind, causing neglect of … Continue reading Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
Quote for Today: Erin Morgenstern
“It is important,” the man in the grey suit interrupts. “Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Erin Morgenstern
Quote for Today: J.R.R. Tolkien
Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold...The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; … Continue reading Quote for Today: J.R.R. Tolkien