We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time. --Ezra Pound, The Guide to Kulchur Image: Duff Axsom … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ezra Pound
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Quote for Today: Annie Dillard
Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky. -- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Public Domain Image, The Snakes of Australia, 1869
Quote for Today: Suzy Kassem
Circles of Life Everything Turns, Rotates, Spins, Circles, Loops, Pulsates, Resonates, And Repeats. Circles Of life, Born from Pulses Of light, Vibrate To Breathe, While Spiraling Outwards For Infinity Through The lens Of time, And into A sea Of stars And Lucid Dreams. ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of … Continue reading Quote for Today: Suzy Kassem
Quote for Today: Edmund de Waal
Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated … Continue reading Quote for Today: Edmund de Waal
Quote for Today: Leo Tolstoy
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a physical wound. And once a deep wound heals over and the edges seem to have knit, a wound in the soul, like a physical wound, can be healed only by the force … Continue reading Quote for Today: Leo Tolstoy
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that … Continue reading Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Quote for Today: Kayko Tamaki
It is a shame to be unaware of the shifts and changes that happen every day, every moment, right before your eyes. The little crinkles around her eyes that get ever-so-slightly deeper and wiser. The silver linings of her hair. The wonders of time and how they show their presence in such ways. You … Continue reading Quote for Today: Kayko Tamaki
