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RUMINATIONS . . .


My candle burns at both ends;
   It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh my friends --
   It gives a lovely light!

          ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, "First Fig"



​We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

​     ~ Joseph Campbell
 


​The power of imagination makes us infinite.

      ~ John Muir
 

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​  Do I contradict myself?
  Very well then I contradict myself.
  (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

      ~ Walt Whitman, Song of Myself


 
​  History says, don’t hope
  On this side of the grave.
  But then, once in a lifetime
  The longed-for tidal wave
  Of justice can rise up,
  And hope and history rhyme.

  ~ Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy

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                              We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

       ~ William Shakespeare, The Tempest



       It is not down on any map; true places never are.
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              ~ Herman Melville, Moby-Dick




​We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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                                                       ~ Toni Morrison




​And the day came when the wish to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

                   ~ Anaïs Nin
 




Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing
       and right-doing, there is a field.
               I'll meet you there.

                                                     ~ Rumi




​Anyone can wear the mask.

            ~ Miles Morales, Into the Spider-Verse


​It is conceivable that Alexander the Great, in spite of the martial success of his early days, in spite of the excellent army that he had trained, in spite of the power he felt within him to change the world, might have remained standing at the bank of the Hellespont and never have crossed it, and not out of fear, not out of indecision, not out of infirmity of will, but because of the mere weight of his own body.

                                                                          ~ Franz Kafka




​Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.”

​               ~ Talmud





​There is no God and we are his prophets.
           
             ~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road​



​What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.

             ~ Theodore Roethke