“You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love.” MeanArtEarthBlackRealizingWhiteTreeSkyBirthAnd LoveBlueSpotsFragileOrnamentsChristmas TreeWhite ChristmasBlue And WhiteHistory And Art Author:Rusty Schweickart
“So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them” WorldGivingShouldWritingBodyRememberAttentionThis WorldBirthGiving UpBlueFavorsCelebratePlatoVulgarWretchedRequestCaress Book:On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry Source: On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
“i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothing--human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)” ShouldHumansDreamEyeTodayEarthSpiritNaturalSunDoubtAliveSeeingTreeSkyBirthGayHappeningsEarsDiedInfiniteBlueWingsHearingBreathingAwakeTouchingUnimaginableTastingThank You GodTrue DreamsAmazing Day Book:AnOther E.E. Cummings Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings
“Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of beauty.” FirstsStillsEyeBloodMinutesObjectsBabyBirthBlueHonestlyCoveredBlue EyesScrewed Up Author:Jennifer Worth
“Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so Blue had grown up surrounded by imperative question marks.” ChildrenOrderBirthDecidedMarkBlueImperativesBarbaricQuestion Mark Book:The Raven Boys Source: The Raven Boys
“Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And red to call the enchantment down White silk when our bodies burn Blue banners when the lost return Flame for the birth of a Nephilim And to wash away our sins. Gray for the knowledge best untold Bone for those who don't grow old Saffron lights the victory march Green to mend our broken hearts Silver for the demon towers And bronze to summon wicked powers -Shadowhunter children's rhyme” HeartChildrenBodyLightNightLostGrowsBlackSinWhiteColorBrokenReturnBirthVictoryRedGoldBlueGreenBonesFlamesMourningDemonWickedSilverMarchGrayHuntingTowersRhymeBridesSilkBannerEnchantmentGownsShadowhuntersBronzeNephilimSaffronDeath And Mourning Author:Cassandra Clare