Look around:
See how things all come alive-
By death! Alive!
Speaks true who speaks shadow.
Paul Celan, Threshold to Threshold, 1955
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Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience.
It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance.
Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati.
It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.
Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, 2000
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; ...Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne, 1907
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way....
As a man is, so he sees.
William Blake, Letter to Reverend John Trusler, 23 August 1799
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dead calm, then a murmur, a name, a murmured name . . .
Samuel Beckett
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Pairs of images made at every lock passed on the grand union canal heading south from Berkhamsted
"... and from each issued the faint phosphoric radiance of decay"
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
Deleuze
