of deep and silly

Anna

[annapearlie]

Not a lion

- by me

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[annapearlie]

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead.

Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.

Walk beside me.”

— Albert Camus

[annapearlie]

to live in this world

you must be able

to do three things

to love what is mortal;

to hold it

against your bones knowing

your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it go,

to let it go

- Mary Oliver, “In Blackwater Woods”

[annapearlie]

Tree at my window, window tree,

My sash is lowered when night comes on;

But let there never be curtain drawn

Between you and me.

Vague dream head lifted out of the ground,

And thing next most diffuse to cloud,

Not all your light tongues talking aloud

Could be profound.

But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed,

And if you have seen me when I slept,

You have seen me when I was taken and swept

And all but lost.

That day she put our heads together,

Fate had her imagination about her,

Your head so much concerned with outer,

Mine with inner, weather.

— “Tree at My Window”, Robert Frost (1928)

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[annapearlie]

“Life is an immense thing to understand. Life is not merely going to the office, not merely begetting children, not merely sex, not merely prosperity, not a series of successes nor the fulfilment of ambitions. Life is something much more than all this. To understand it, one must inquire into what love is, what death is, whether there is something beyond all words; and to understand all this, the mind must be very quiet, not torn by conflict.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Public Talk 3, New Delhi

28 January 1962

[annapearlie]

[annapearlie]

Carry me away without breaking me, in kisses, in chests that rise and draw in breath, on the carpets of palms and their smile, in the passageways of long bones and articulations.

- Henri Michaux, “Emportez-moi”, 1968

[annapearlie]

[annapearlie]

[annapearlie]

“Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.”

- Larry Kramer

[annapearlie]

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by me

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[annapearlie]

[annapearlie]

“Live with your century, but do not be its creature.”

- Friedrich Schiller