what's really there

since feeling is first

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
- the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other; then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

e. e. cummings

yes

"This world's no blot for us, / Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good."

-Robert Browning

connection

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”

“'Tis not too late to seek a newer world”

“I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move”

“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”

"I am a part of all that I have seen."

"Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change."

"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."

-Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Close observation of a single subject, whether it is as tiny as Pasteur's microbes or as great as Einstein's universe, is the kind of work that happens less and less these days. Glued to computer and TV screens we have forgotten how to look at the natural world, the original instructor on how to be curious about detail.”
-Jennifer New

findings

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlaying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle."

"We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me."

"As there was full an hour and a half between me and daylight, I dozed again, now waking up uneasily, with prolix conversations about nothing, in my ears; now making thunder of the wind in the chimney; at length falling off into a profound sleep from which the daylight woke me with a start."

-Great Expectations-

follow the day

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resigned."

"You looked happy. Happy with a secret."

"It's going to be gone soon. I know. What do we do? Enjoy it."

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

realization

When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.

"When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer"

-Walt Whitman-

remember

"I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here. It is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time."

"Before the sun dipped below the black mass, standing boldly athwart the western sky, its downward way was marked by myriad colors of every sunset colour-flame, purple, pink, green, violet, and all the tints of gold, with here and there masses not large, but of seemingly absolute blackness, in all sorts of shapes, as well outlined as colossal silhouettes."

-Dracula