“Take a clock that has lost its hands for a ride.” - Charles Simic “I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.” - Mary Oliver
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“There is little time left.
None for a drink at the local bistro.
None for a pointless stroll,
None for a change of clothes.
We must get down to work: mail the pajamas…” - Mark Strand
Make a little room for absurdity 😉
Amanda retweeted
"Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself."
~ Margaret Fuller
The Autumn Forest (1902)
🎨 Akseli Gallen-Kallela
“Another day has come,
Another fabulous escape from the damages of night”
Mark Strand’s good morning.
Amanda retweeted
A breathtaking calmness. While the world outside hurried in a race against speed, he chose to pause in an absolute silence, where the music found its own way and began to play.✨
🎶SCHUBERT - Impromptu n°3 (Horowitz)
“Let us pick flowers,
Let’s dip lightly
These hands of ours
In the calm streams,
That we may learn
Calm like them.”
Master, Serene by Fernando Pessoa as Albert Caeiro
“O what daybreak in the windows!”Czeslaw Milosz says good morning, and so do I. Go read something that helps you find joy and see the miraculous in the ordinary.
“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
- Gaston Bachelard
