COMPASSION is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you. Deepak Chopra
GIVE YOUR ATTENTION to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere. RUPERT SPIRE
THE ARTIST is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. FEDERICO FELLINI
JOHN KEATS 1795-1821 “Ode to a Grecian Urn” “Endymion”.
BEAUTY IS TRUTH, TRUTH BEAUTY, — that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
“BEAUTY is all we need in order to discover truth and truth is itself beautiful.”
A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
IT IS BETTER TO LOSE YOUR EGO TO THE ONE YOU LOVE THAN TO LOSE THE ONE YOU LOVE TO YOUR EGO.
NOTHING EVER BECOMES REAL TILL IT IS EXPERIENCED — even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
TO STAY YOUTHFUL, STAY USEFUL.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affection and the truth of imagination.
THE ONLY MEANS of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
SOME SAY the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.
POETRY SOOTHES & EMBOLDENS THE SOUL TO ACCEPT MYSTERY.
THAT WHICH IS CREATIVE MUST CREATE ITSELF.
A HOPE BEYOND THE SHADOW OF A DREAM.
TO SILENCE GOSSIP, DON’T REPEAT IT.
GIVE ME BOOKS, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
FAILURE is in a sense the highway to success as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
THE EXCELLENCE OF EVERY ART IS ITS INTENSITY.
MANY have original minds who do not think it — they are led away by custom!
IS THERE ANOTHER LIFE? Shall I awake and find a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
DICK FRANCIS 1920-2010. “Dead Cert””Whip Hand” “Odds Against”
HISTORICALLY MORE PEOPLE HAVE DIED OF RELIGION THAN CANCER.
LET AN IDEA swim to the surface like a fish in a pool . . . let the mind drift to the vision.
THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they’d been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.
PEOPLE ALWAYS KILL CEASAR. DON’T TRUST ANYONE.
EMOTION IS A ROTTEN BASE FOR POLITICS.
THE DIGNITY OF MAN WAS EVERYWHERE TISSUE-PAPER THIN.
JOHN KEATS: PLEASURE is oft a distant; but pain clings cruelly to us.
THERE IS A BUDDING TOMORROW IN MIDNIGHT.
IF poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to tree, then it better not come at all.
LIFE IS BUT A DAY; A FRAGILE dewdrop on its perilous way from a tree’s summit.
LOVE IS MY RELIGION — I COULD DIE FOR IT.
HEALTH IS THE GREATEST OF BLESSINGS — with health and hope we should be content to live.
HEARD MELODIES ARE SWEET, BUT THOSE UNHEARD ARE SWEETER.
I WANT A BRIGHTER WORD THAN BRIGHT.
MY IMAGINATION IS A MONASTERY AND I AM ITS MONK.
EVEN BEES, the little almsman of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
A MAN SHOULD have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
LET US OPEN OUR LEAVES LIKE A FLOWER AND BE PASSIVE AND RECEPTIVE.