“No!” Know!
Where the Wild Things Are. Maurice Sendak.
“Oh please don’t go--we’ll eat you up--we love you so!” And Max said, “No!”
(...Max stepped onto his private boat and waved good-bye.)
Mary Oliver, New and Selected Vol2,p86
The Old Poets of China
Wherever I am, the wold comes after me, It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
...into the mystic?
John O’Donohue, Beauty, p9.
The Beautiful unifies feeling, thought, and dream... This acquaintance coaxes the should to the land of wonder where the journey becomes a bright path between source and horizon, awakening and surrender. - John O’Donohue
I feel more and more everyday, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand worlds. -John Keats