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“For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.”

“What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.”

Life Art Pain Joy Lost Tears Flower Labor Empty Eternity Breaths Court Ease Streams Shade Fades Tides Worms Fleeting Undone Puff Vapor Short Lived

Author:Alexander Brome

“Life in itself / Is nothing, / An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”

Enough Flower Empty Flight Cups Hills Idiot April Stairs Babbling Empty Cup

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?”

Needs Children Flower Gratitude Empty Notes Boxes Bunch Golden Apples Bags Bottles Pot Diamond Scent Vans Jam Pebbles Homemade Bouquets Seedlings

Author:Pam Brown

“Chiromancy is a stupidity! No man's fate is ever written on nowhere! In this universe, all the roads are our fate; all the stones and all the flowers are waiting for us! All the pages and all the days of the future are empty! On the roads to future, no one has footprints; we create them through walking!”

Men Universe Waiting Fate Written Flower Walking Pages Stones Empty Stupidity Footprint

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.”

Doe Ends Beautiful Forever Flower Mountain Ocean Empty Clouds Contrary Wander Streams Sand Mentality Depressing Washing Surf Canyons Empty Life Mountain Streams

Book:The Way of Zen

Source: The Way of Zen

“A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".”

Faces Rooms Flower Thousand Empty Desert Plastic Empty Rooms Plastic Flowers

Author:Frederick Salomon Perls

“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.”

Want Ideas Hands Wanted Lying Feminism Flower Empty No Idea Classic Being A Woman Peacefulness Daze

Book:Ariel

Source: Ariel

“Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”

Source: Second April: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free—— The peacefulness is so big it dazes you, And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets. It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.”

Want Ideas Hands Bigs Wanted Lying Asks Names Imagine Flower Mouths Empty No Idea Communion Tag Peacefulness Tablets Trinkets Daze

Author:Sylvia Plath

“I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people would react to my death. Mr Dunthorne's quavering voice as he makes the announcement. The shocked faces of my classmates. A playground bedecked with flowers. The empty stillness of a school corridor. Local news analysis. . . . The steady stoicism of my parents. . . . Candlelit vigils. . . . And finally, my glorious resurrection.”

“I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music”

“You don't know what beauty is. You use the word, certainly, but your word is empty. Beauty is known only by one who has known the inner beauty, one who has known the inner flower opening. Then whenever a flower is seen, it reminds you of your inner beauty.”

Knows Life Use Known Flower Empty Opening Happy Life Inner Beauty

Author:Rajneesh

“I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul. Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. There is soul music, soul food, and soul love... People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.”

“When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute - the screen is empty, the film has disappeared. This is the state of meditation: when there are no thoughts, no feelings - nothing moves, everything stops. There is tremendous serenity. Out of this serenity, silence, peace, a new kind of experience arises, new flowers blossom.”

Mind Kind States Feelings Film Moving Silence Meditation Flower Ten Percent Hundred Empty Absolutes Screens Arise Serenity Ninety Flower Blossom

Author:Rajneesh