Two Thoughts (15 - 21 June)
Sunday, 15 June
Two thoughts from Marianne Moore
“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
“The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.”
Monday, 16 June
Two thoughts from Wallace Stevens
“Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.”
"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."
Tuesday, 17 June
Two thoughts from Jane Hirshfield
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things – everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
“Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.”
Wednesday, 18 June
Two thoughts from A.R. Ammons
“In nature there are few sharp lines.”
“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”
Thursday, 19 June
Two thoughts from Loren Eiseley
"The plan is not what you think."
"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."
Friday, 20 June
Two thoughts from Paul de Man
“Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.”
“The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.”
Saturday, 21 June
Two thoughts from Jacques Lacan
“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”
“What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one’s cards face up on the table?”
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Dear Jim,
Great quotes this week! Some of my faves:
Marianne Moore:
“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
Wallace Stevens:
“Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.”
"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."
Jane Hirshfield:
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things – everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
“Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.”
A.R. Ammons:
“In nature there are few sharp lines.”
“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”
Loren Eiseley:
"The plan is not what you think."
Jacques Lacan
“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”
“What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one’s cards face up on the table?”
Thank you for sharing!
Love
Myq