Jamie Grant.
http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/grant-jamie/farm-incident-0134011
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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
Aesop
“Gently touch a nettle and it’ll sting you for your pains/Grasp it as a lad of mettle and soft as silk remains“
For fear though faster than the wind Believes ’tis always left behind. Butler.
It is not all who turn their backs that flee. Dan.
Wolves lose their teeth, but not their memory.
We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.
Gerald Hausman
Whar the deer’s slain some o’ the blood will lie.
Is àrd ceann an fhèidh sa chreachann.
Lofty is the deer’s head on the top of the mountain.
Do not take so dismal a view of things.
“For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W.”
I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap. – Billie Burke
How we apples swim ! So said the horsedung as it floated down the stream along with fruit.
Get yourself a mirror and paint your own portrait, over and over. It’s a great chance to experiment, you’ll discover things about yourself, and you don’t have to pay the model! (Susan Avishai)
There is a lot to be gained from painted portraits. A true portrait is fuller and richer than simply an image on a flat surface. (Sam Adoquei)
“Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.”
—Agatha Christie (author, Death on the Nile)
Read more at http://dogtime.com/dog-health/general/16344-25-famous-quotes-about-dogs#jiB5wz82wr7GTuP3.99
Men made dogs, they took wolves and gave them human things–unnecessary intelligence, names, a desire to belong, and a twitching inferiority complex. All dogs dream wolf dreams, and know they’re dreaming of biting their Maker. Every dog knows, deep in his heart, that he is a Bad Dog…”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
The peg swallowed the necklace. (Arabic).
King Vikram in time of misfortune hung his necklace on a peg. As misfortunes follow one another, the necklace soon disappeared. No one being able to tell how it was lost, the saying went abroad that the peg had swallowed it. When good fortune returned, the King found his necklace on the peg where it had been hung.
“I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Look before you leap, For snakes among sweet flowers do creep.
“You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible that you couldn’t survive even looking at it. Until I got a little older and I figured out the obvious answer. Everything.”
― Mike Carey & Peter Gross, The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
The skeletons in my closet carouse and party all night, When one opens the door to pee, gee, I get such a fright.
Smartass Rabbi
Feb 23
No matter that my heart sinks,
sighs, with the weight of skeletons-paths I forgot to follow
have slowly sealedrooms go unrecognised
for fear of changeand I cry at the uncertainty of rainbows.
All the daydreams I stole,
refusing to give them backare stored as silver dust
and each day is a small breath.
Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.” ― Françoise Sagan, Dans un mois, dans un an
“A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiveness is bitter or sweet.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
Idle Curiosity.
Charity Patient: “Doctor, Is there any danger of the operation proving
fatal?”
Doctor: “Really, my good man, considering that we are experimenting on you free of charge, your idle curiosity smacks of Insolence!”
Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA : FRIDAY 10 MAY 1918.
“When I came to recovery I realized that being a child for 28 years nearly killed me”
My heart is Round ready to echo the music of my
family but the Square
within me remains
The Square stops me in my entirety.
ali cobby eckermann
I have ridden in your cart, driver, waved my nude arms at villages going by, learning the last bright routes, survivor
Her Kind
ANNE SEXTON
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin
Their noses sniff the shadows, at dusk The leaves crumble beneath them Leaving maps of the past Forgotten until morning. I can hear them. They are only a single nightmare away.
Sarah Oppenheimer Feb 8, 2012 Bloodhound
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
Tell your own story first. Spanish.
Australian Aborigines say that the big stories—the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life—are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. —Robert Moss, Dreamgates
In the alley The children throw a ball against Their future walls.
Ern Malley:
The Darkening Ecliptic
“There are four kinds of people in the world, Ms. Harper. Those who build walls. Those who protect walls. Those who breach walls. And those who tear down walls. Much of life is discovering who you are. When you find out, you also realize there are places you can no longer go, things you can no longer do, words you can no longer say.”
― P.S. Baber, Cassie Draws the Universe
foto – wall at the beachshack
The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are. Lynn Noel
http://www.oklahomaroadtrips.com/Paddler-Quotes.htm
Be strong, O paddle! be brave, canoe!The reckless waves you must plunge into.Reel, reel.On your trembling keel,But never a fear my craft will feel.E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), Flint and Feather: The Complete Poems
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.” ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.
Philip Dow
foto –izzy foreal at brierfield halloween 2013
“May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns… and may the moonshadow never fall on you… ” Robert Fanney
“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow.
Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.
The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight.
The camera obscura.
Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one’s soul. Victor Hugo
We want to uncover the truth about ourselves.
We want to discover the attitudes, thoughts, beliefs, fears, actions, behaviours, and the behaviour patterns – that have been blocking us and causing us problems and causing our failure.
May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment. Jeb Dickerson
http://www.quotegarden.com/sleep.html
“It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told the children bed time stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Zimbabwean
‘By gor’, that’s a bloody enormous cat.’
‘It’s a lion,’ said Granny Weatherwax, looking at the stuffed head over the fireplace.
‘Must’ve hit the wall at a hell of a speed, whatever it was,’ said Nanny Ogg.
‘Someone killed it,’ said Granny Weatherwax, surveying the room.
‘Should think so,’ said Nanny. ‘If I’d seen something like that eatin’ its way through the wall I’d of hit it myself with a poker.’
WITCHES ABROAD TERRY PRATCHETT
“The bitterest of woes Is to remember in our wretchedness Old happy times . Francesca da Rimini
Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.
“Her appetite for lust became so flagrant
That she made lewdness licit with her laws
To free her from the blame her vice incurred.
“O misery,
How many the sweet thoughts, how much yearning
Has led these two to this heartbroken pass!”
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 