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“Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.”

People Writing Ideas Waiting Rocks Flower Quiet Stones Metaphor Strikes No Idea Weed Splits Snakes Reconcile

Book:The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

Source: The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.”

Source: Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Novels & Tales (Illustrated): 30 Classics in One Volume: A Christmas Carol, The Battle of Life, The Chimes, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree, Doctor Marigold, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations and more

“The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.”

Mind Facts Past Pleasure Discipline Gratitude Laughter Bird Stones Appreciation Sunset Weed Spells Unnoticed Purification Austerity Life Appreciation

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.”

Trying May Together Speak Voice Pay Attention Silence Stones Blue Thanks Pay Attention Weed Contests Patches Doorways Few Words Vacant Irises

Author:Mary Oliver

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.”

Wells Heart Grows Difficult Nature Education Known Sad Stones Prejudice Firm Soil Weed Well Known Cultural Diversity Conventionality Tolerance And Diversity

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.”

Mind Ends Might Certain Fall Found Steps Records Dying Pride Stones Notion Dust Witness Dry Weed Manifest Vague Alienation Degradation

Author:Philip K. Dick

“There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from the harbor He has kissed her with his freedom He has heard her off to starboard In the breaking and the breathing Of the water weeds While she was busy being free”

Men Dream Water Heard Stones Treats Green Busy Decades Breathing California Queens Weed Sailing Harbors Being Free Amber Beads

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.”

Seems Answers Feet Tears Sorrow Stones Graves Tales Weed Rome Distress

Book:Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare

Source: Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare

“Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.”

Trying May Together Speak Voice Pay Attention Silence Praying Stones Blue Thanks Pay Attention Weed Contests Patches Doorways Few Words Vacant Irises

Book:Thirst: Poems

Source: Thirst: Poems

“As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the dry grass bright And the tangled weeds Bearing a rainbow gem On each of their seeds; So has your love, my lover, Fresh as the dawn, Made me a shining road To travel on, Set every common sight Of tree or stone Delicately alight For me alone.”

Made Stars Common Tree Lovers Stones Sight Shining Seeds Bars Dawn Grass Dry Weed Rainbow Fence Jewels Dew Me Alone Gems Tangled Pastures My Lover Cobwebs

Book:Love Songs

Source: Love Songs