“Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising.” DreamForeverMysteryMouthsUnderstoodRiversStonesGrassRisingGravityMarvelousAllegianceLambs Book:Evidence: Poems Source: Evidence: Poems
“Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.” KindBodyEarthVirtueStonesUnionsAffectionMutualGravityMagneticConjunctions Author:Johannes Kepler
“It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.” FormLawEvilImpossibleStonesStrongerGravityAlliances Author:Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
“What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.” ThinkingWayProblemStonesWeightLet MeMetaphorDeedsReleaseRememberedGravityWay Of ThinkingSingle WordLet Me Down Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you've built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is not to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place is gravity and stability, where out feet can still touch ground.” KnowsHeartStillsRealBeautifulUniversePassionHouseFeetWallBuiltStonesDestructionLeavingWideTricksCardsTouchingStabilityGravityWildnessTamedTornadoesHouse Of CardsStone WallsMaybe LoveTouching YouArmed Guards Book:Wild Roses Source: Wild Roses