“Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall.” IfsKnowsMayFallSecretAirPaperStonesThrowingSecrecy Author:Pedro Calderon de la Barca
“In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.” TwoLeftWaterSecretBehindsShapesElementsStonesCrossesPrimariesDesertAbundanceExposedCanvasLeft BehindRarityVegetationFerocity Author:Craig Childs
“... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.” SpiritualSpiritPoetrySocialVoiceSecretFantasyPoetBuiltStonesCollectivesPoetry IsLiquidCompactRuptureAquifers Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition) Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)
“Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.” MenMindDoeSeemsRunningSecretRaceGeniusAmbitionStonesHorseNervousThrownCompetitorsBrutesEmulateEmulationRacersThoroughbreds Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!” FoundSecretToolsStonesRaisedAncientBlockPrimitiveAsiaPyramidsBuilderWeighingPeru Author:Edward Leedskalnin