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To the Nightingale

On what secret night in England

Or by the incalculable constant Rhine,

Lost among all the nights of my nights,

Carried to my unknowing ear

Your voice, burdened with mythology,

Nightingale of Virgil, of the Persians?

Perhaps I never heard you, yet my life

I bound to your life, inseparably.


A wandering spirit is your symbol

In a book of enigmas. El Marino

Named you the siren of the woods

And you sing through Juliet's night

And in the intricate Latin pages

And from the pine-trees of that other,

Nightingale of Germany and Judea,

Heine, mocking, burning, mourning.


Keats heard you for all, everywhere.

There's not one of the bright names

The people of the earth have given you

That does not yearn to match your music,

Nightingale of shadows. The Muslim

Dreamed you drunk with ecstasy

His breast trans-pierced by the thorn

Of the sung rose that you redden

With your last blood. Assiduously

I plot these lines in twilight emptiness,

Nightingale of the shores and seas,

Who in exaltation, memory and fable

Burn with love and die melodiously.


Jorge Luis Borges
 
“Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away."
Dag Hammarskjold
 
Erikmen said:
?It?s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.?
J. Steinbeck
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really hits home

Maybe it?s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.
- perks of being a wallflower

 
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery
 
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
M. Proust

 
“I guess I was just trying to say that the Internet is good at satisfying needs from a distance. Male or female.”
Jonathan Franzen, Purity
 
“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
 
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“It’s an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” Joseph Powell
 
"I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,
I sought it daily for six weeks or so.
Maybe at last being but a broken man
I must be satisfied with my heart, although
Winter and summer till old age began
My circus animals were all on show,
Those stilted boys, that burnished chariot,
Lion and woman and the Lord knows what.

...Those masterful images because complete
Grew in pure mind but out of what began?
A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."

- excerpt from, The Circus Animals Desertion,
by William Butler Yeats
 
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.”
Paulo Coelho
 
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
 
My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it's surprising how often they head in your direction. ~ Unknown
 
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
 
“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
 
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