“Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.” MindMadePastColorBearsMarkWeatherGrime Author:Junichiro Tanizaki
“Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of wine glasses by the wind. Everything is flaking, cracking, disintegrating, wearing away in the long, inperceptible weather of time. The ash of ancient volcanic outbursts still sterilizes its soil, and its colors in that waste are the colors that flame in the lonely sunsets on dead planets.” LongHas BeensStillsGrowsColorPlanetsWindShapesWasteLonelyBasesWineAncientGlassesWeatherFlamesSoilSunsetShadeAshesWine GlassPinnacleOutburstToadstoolsSandstone Author:Loren Eiseley
“It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.” SelfPoetryTimeSoundLordColorPoetPerceptionVersionsWeatherBlockSovereignFragrance Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.” WellsFaithColorExperienceConvictionWeatherWoven Book:Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A Source: Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A