You don't want to come back here. The weather is miserable and everyone is in a bad mood.

It sounded wonderful.

~ Francesca Marciano, Rules of the Wild

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower

Drives my green age; that blasts the root of trees

Is my destroyer

And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose

My youth is bent by the same wintry flower

~ Dylan Thomas

And I sing this

For the heart with no companion

For the soul without a king

For the prima ballerina who cannot dance to anything

~ Leonard Cohen

The child may be nutty as a fruitcake but they'll manage somehow. Being in the thinking business.

~ My House in Umbria

This is one of the many ways you can change your life. If you want to.

~ Francesca Marciano, Rules of the Wild

I know the trick to get rid of pain: whole chunks of my life dissolve like a drop of ink in water.

~ Francesca Marciano. Rules of the Wild, 22

Now from his breast into his eyes the ache

Of longing mounted, and he wept at last,

His dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms,

Longed for as the sun warmed earth is longed for by a swimmer

Spent in rough water where his ship went down

Under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea.

Few men can keep alive through a big surf

To crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches

In joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind:

And so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband,

Her white arms round him pressed as though forever.

~Homer, The Odyssey

For all this attention, the family feels most lucky to have kept it a family affair.

~Sylvia Plath

Come to the edge

We might fall

Come to the edge

It's too high!

COME TO THE EDGE!

So they came

And he pushed

And they flew

~ Christopher Logue

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a

dancing star."

~ Nietzsche

All the particles in the world

Are in love and looking for lovers.

Pieces of straw tremble

In the presence of amber.

~ Rumi

"The charlatan is always the pioneer. From the astrologer came the astronomer, from the alchemist the chemist, from the mesmerist the experimental psychologist. The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow."

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, from The Leather Funnel