“Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.” SoulEnoughLightLyingNightHeavenBlackMemoriesBehindsHellSeaRefuseBitterMy SoulDawnSandConsolationHeaven And HellEnough Love Author:Madison Cawein
“Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.” MenLyingLostConsciousBitterDesertSandGrainJestUnconsciousnessGrains Of Sand Author:Amos Bronson Alcott
“When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.” ThinkingFeelsLongDoeImportantSometimesLyingNightStarsWindImportanceNakedBeachSandGrainVocabularyPillowVery DeepIndescribableGrains Of SandCoconuts Author:Marlon Brando
“In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.” YearsTwoFactsSeemsMightLyingMorningMonthsEternalSeasonsLifetimeNakedSandLazySunshineLos AngelesSlipsPacificNuance Author:Christopher Isherwood
“We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.” FeelsLyingStarsWalksWalkingFilledTiredBeachSandFlatsBowlsCompass Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA
“Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.” ThinkingWorldKindArtWholeHandsBigsLyingSeeingMinutesWhole WorldSandBroadsGrainStrokesExaminationMundaneBig PictureGrains Of Sand Author:Peter Hammill