“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.” GivingHumansLittlesLongHas BeensRealMightBeautifulTurnsWaterImaginationHuman BeingsFireAirRocksShapesEssentialsElementsAngelGoldWingsTongueSubstanceDemonGraySubmitAgain And AgainPearlsMight Have BeenClayLuminousStrawsPebblesSpunThin AirAngel Wings Book:The Man on the Ceiling Source: The Man on the Ceiling
“Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter: To what shall their rarity be likened? What prices shall count their worth? Perfect, and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, No lovely thing on earth can picture their fair beauty. They be chance pearls, flung among the rocks by the sullen waters of Oblivion.” GivingWisdomEarthJoyWaterChancePerfectRocksFairsLipsRichesLovelyPearlsOblivionSullenRarityLovely Things Book:Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated
“Every object in nature is impressed with God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object, be it pebble or pearl, weed or rose, the flower-spangled sward beneath, or the star-spangled sky above, not a worm or an angel, a drop of water or a boundless ocean, in which intelligence may not discern, and piety adore, the providence of Him who took our nature that He might save our souls.” MaySoulMightStarsWaterNatureWonderSkyCreationObjectsFlowerOceanAngelRoseRepeatsWeedProvidenceImpressedAdorePearlsWormsPietyBoundlessFootstepsPebblesDrop Of Water Author:Thomas Guthrie
“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.” MindSometimesUniverseVoiceWaterRoomsFantasyFireSkyMountainOceanBonesBreatheDragonsParadoxPearlsThunderPetalsOystersMarrowCopperMarshesJinglesBone Marrow Author:Maxine Hong Kingston