“Every sentence is a wispy net, capturing a few flecks of meaning. The sun shines without vocabulary. The salmon has no name for the urge that drives it upstream. The newborn groping for the nipple knows hunger long before it knows a single word. Even with an entire dictionary in one's head, one…”Tagged: Universe, Understanding The Universe, Our Place In The Universe, humanity, Being A Human
“Nothing less than the undivided universe can be our true home.”Tagged: Universe, Understanding The Universe, Our Place In The Universe, humanity, Being A Human
“What memory is made of I cannot say; my body, at least, is made of atoms on loan from the earth. How implausible, that these atoms should have gathered to form this I, this envelope of skin that walks about.”Tagged: Universe, Understanding The Universe, Our Place In The Universe, humanity, Being A Human
“Then I withdrew my hand and she smoothed her skirt, neither of us risking a word, and we teetered there for a hundred heartbeats on those swaying branches, shaken by inner as well as outer winds.”Tagged: Desire, Love, Lust, Moth To A Flame, Poetic Language
“drawn in those days like a moth to the flame of a girl.”Tagged: Desire, Love, Lust, Moth To A Flame, Poetic Language