“That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.” WorldStillsSoulDesireMy OwnWallMoralityDiversityMirrorsFallenAbstractSensationsMetaphysicsCentre Author:Fernando Pessoa
“Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards.” StillsMightEyeLostHeavenMirrors Author:John Sullivan Dwight
“Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.” MenStillsRunningWaterSilenceMirrorsRunning WaterStill Waters Author:Bill Vaughan
“Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.” StillsSelfLightHousePowerfulPaintingShotsSightMirrorsVariousBedroomPortraitsBathroomLitCatchingBulbsLight BulbSelf PortraitMorbidity Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon
“Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.” WorldKindStillsTwoWarEndsBodyDarknessHeroPureSingingMirrorsKingdomsMysteriousGeographySirensBeauty Of The World Author:Lord Dunsany