Ryan Muirhead
“The miracle is walking on the earth, not walking on water or fire. The real miracle is walking on this earth.”
— Thích Nhất Hạnh (via purplebuddhaproject)
Sub-blog: water-lily-world
The beautiful things in life don’t translate to black and white.
“The miracle is walking on the earth, not walking on water or fire. The real miracle is walking on this earth.”
— Thích Nhất Hạnh (via purplebuddhaproject)
“Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too, The world’s heart breaks beneath its wars,”
— Sara Teasdale, from Winter Stars in “The Collected Poems Of Sara Teasdale”
“So little body was in her, And so much sigh.”
— Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), from “Just one more gigantic flap…” (To Akhmatova”, 1916), translated from the Russian by Ilya Shambat
“Так много вздоха было в ней,
Так мало — тела.”
“I’m not the sea, I’m not pure blue, I don’t have to take anything you throw into me.”
— Margaret Atwood, from You Are Happy; The Circe/Mud Poems.
“I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you.”
— T.S. Eliot, East Coker
“The dusk is pouring quicksilver into my blood.”
— Grete Tartler, from Orient Express: Poems; “The Coanda Effect,”
“You have witchcraft in your lips.”
— William Shakespeare
(via goodreadss)
“…in love with dark seclusion, With stillness, stars, the lonely night, And with the moon’s celestial light—”
— Alexander Pushkin, from Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
