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“The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.”

Knows Way Hard Wisdom Form Sound Water Perfect Know How Cold Drink Perfection Hot Perceive Subtle Drink Water

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.”

Eye Sound Mouths Hot Ancient Dry Stomach Engines Cages Palms Jet Ribs Pavement Vacant Travels With Charley Warming Up Rib Cage

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."”

Ifs Should Children Said Earth Mother Dies Asks Sound Decision Pieces Authority Hot Fingers Ask Me Should I Palms Obeying Oracles Things Fall Apart Okonkwo Yams Okonkwo

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.”

Different Sound Hot Smell Nostalgia Kitchen Pie Frozen Cooling Thawing

Book:A Window Over the Sink

Source: A Window Over the Sink

“Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama Ham from Virginia, ham from York, Trotters Sausages, hot roast pork. Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on Bacon with or without the rind on Though humanitarian I'm not a vegetarian. I'm neither crank nor prude nor prig And though it may sound infra dig Any part of the darling pig Is perfectly fine with me.”

May Sound Food Fine Hot Cooking Humanitarian Teeth Culinary Vegetarian Pigs Darling Grind Virginia Pork Ham Sausage Crisps Lama Crank Dalai Piggy Prudes

Author:Noel Coward

“The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.”

Lying Sound Perfection Hot Notes Delight Paradise Bitterness Imperfect Stubborn Flawed

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.”

Soul Eye Song Sound Blood Genius Mouths Hot South Folks Folk Songs

Book:The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

“All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.”

Ifs Hands Running Together Faces Force Felt Sound My Own Behinds Heard Pressure Hot Rising Breasts Gray Yellow Nurse Bowls Soup Rushing Corridors Supernatural Forces

Book:March

Source: March