Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
– Wislawa Szymborska –
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
– Wislawa Szymborska –
for us no difference between reading eating singing
making love not one thing or the other
– Ikkyu –
flowers are silent
silence is silent
the mind is a silent flower
the silent flower of the world opens
– Ikkyu –
Having no destination,
I am never lost.
– Ikkyu –
I’ve burnt all the holy pages I used to carry
but poems flare in my heart
– Ikkyu – Crow With No Mouth :
Ikkyu : Fifteenth Century Zen Master
a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming…
– H.P. Lovecraft – Night Ocean et autres nouvelles
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream.
– Ernest Dowson –
satomipoema 