own

20 04 2007

‘Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.’

- Barry Long





all

19 04 2007

‘To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.’

- Auguste Rodin





solid

18 04 2007

‘At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.’

- Orson Welles





fill

17 04 2007

‘In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.’

- Oscar Wilde





parts

16 04 2007

‘To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence’

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau





leaves

15 04 2007

‘Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.’

- Franz Kafka





sighing

14 04 2007

‘And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.’

- Christina G. Rossetti





render

13 04 2007

‘Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason’

- Ralph Waldo Emerson





wake

12 04 2007

‘Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.’

- Otomo No Yakamochi





forget

11 04 2007

‘Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.’

- Christina G. Rossetti