“I was going along a dusty highroad
when the mountain
across the way
turned me to its silence:
oh I said how come
I don’t know your
massive symmetry and rest:
nevertheless, said the mountain,
would you want
to be
lodged here with
a changeless prospect, risen
to an unalterable view:
so I went on
counting my numberless fingers.”
Wordless
wordless 44
in Wordless
“In recent years the tendency has been to elevate the messenger over the message, a strategy which effectively keeps their more painful imagery at a distance. The courage of the photographer is celebrated while the circumstances of his or her subjects becomes somewhat secondary. As a result the photograph becomes less of a window onto the world and more of a mirror reflecting the distorted priorities of the culture consuming the imagery.”
wordless 43
“What if every relationship you’ve ever been in is somebody slowly figuring out they didn’t like you as much as they hoped they would?”
wordless 42
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
wordless 41
“War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.”
wordless 40
“Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.”
wordless 39
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.”
wordless 37
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
wordless 34
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
wordless 33
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”
wordless 32
“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details.
Details are always vulgar.”
wordless 31
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
wordless 30
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
wordless 29
“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.”
wordless 28
wordless 27
“I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.”
wordless 26
in Wordless
“Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.”
wordless 25
in Wordless
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
wordless 24
in Wordless
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
wordless 23
in Wordless
“This is the true nature of home — it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.”