"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."
-- Ernest Hemingway, Indian Camp
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"The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea."
-- Ernest Hemingway, Islands In the Stream
(If anyone were to be declared the best writer of opening sentences, it would be Hemingway, hands down.)
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"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
-- Ecclesiastes 1:9, The Bible
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"When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and refork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my path."
-- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"All the world's a stage
And all the men and women merely players
They have their exits and their entrances
And one man in his time plays many parts"
-- William Shakespeare
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"There's only one rule I know of: goddamn it, you've got to be kind."
-- Kurt Vonnegut
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"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
-- Gustave Flaubert
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Stargazing
words by Andy Weaver
She keeps trying
to show me Orion,
pointing to his belt
in the night sky,
and I try to picture him
-- but I've never been much
of a hunter, for food
or for love,
for that matter.
Now, Auden may be right,
poetry might make nothing happen,
but when she points
I think of Roethke,
how he wrote he measured time
by the swaying of a body
and I know
I measure something
older and far more still
by how three distant suns
can balance
on the tip of her finger.
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Even after all this time
The sun never says
to the Earth
"You owe me."
Look what happens
with a love like that,
It lights the
whole sky.
-- Hafiz
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
-- Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind
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"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
^^ I like this one because it's just a rephrasing of Newton's Third Law ^^
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"A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure."
-- Lee Segall
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"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day."
-- Polish Proverb
Corps.
- Aoshie
- Fantasy, Florida, United States
- I am a traveler, but I'm just along for the ride. As a dear friend put it, "It's all for the hell of it." I want to share my poetry. I want to take pictures and share them with you. Now, about yourself?
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