It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. ~Vita Sackville-West
Don’t move. Stay still. Once you find a place that feels halfway right, and it seems time, settle down with a vow not to move any more. Take a look at one place on earth, one circle of people, one realm of beings over time. ~Gary Snyder
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hilary 01.13.10 at 4:26 pm
i ADORE the vita sackville west quote. i must post it over my desk. so true. and isn’t that enough? to capture those ephemeral emotions for a moment? with no larger aspirations at all?
mitch 01.18.10 at 12:00 pm
wow. thank you for passing these on. xo