“La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.” HumansMovingStarsBearsSpeechBeatsLongingPityTunesCrackedParoleKettles Author:Gustave Flaubert
“I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it until it shone above the dark gum tree. I used to whisper 'There you are, my darling.' And just in that first moment it seemed to be shining for me alone. It seemed to understand this ... something which is like longing, and yet it is not longing. Or regret - it is more like regret.” FirstsDoeMomentsUsedStarsWaitingSoundDarkTreeRegretLongingShiningFoolishEveningSunsetDarlingMe AloneBackyardsGum Book:Undiscovered country: the New Zealand stories of Katherine Mansfield Source: Undiscovered country: the New Zealand stories of Katherine Mansfield
“I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.” HeartMayDiesStarsWhiteSeaSadnessSkyLowsBirdBlueLongingBelovedFlamesTwilightHungTireDissatisfactionFoamRimsMeteorsWhite Birds Book:Early Poems Source: Early Poems
“Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.” ThinkingWorldHumansStarsWaterBornNaturalExistenceWonderSunSkyOrdinaryIntelligentInstrumentsLongingPrisonFishesMythPoolReach OutTrappedSpeculationRestlessCognitiveIngeniousNatural ScienceAlways Wrong Author:E. O. Wilson