The Tiger
Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thiy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp?
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars through down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the Lamb, make thee?
Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
-William Blake
"Only love can break a heart into so many pieces...The greatest pain...ever felt rode on the back of love."
-Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
In the Forests of the Night
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow in the morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
-T.S. Eliot
"The Waste Land"
"Go then, there are other worlds than these."
-Stephen King
The Dark Tower
"Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
-T.S. Eliot
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please, the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life."
-Sarah McLachlan
"You either shrink and hide or you throw your shoulders back and charge right in.
I learned that charging felt more comfortable for me."
-Minnie Driver
I knew how I wanted to live my life and what was important to me. It came from letting go of all that fear, of worrying about other people's perceptions, other people's anger. I realized that when I embraced who I was, I became the best version of myself."
-Gwyneth Paltrow
"If I had never met him I would have dreamt him into being."
-Anzia Yezierska
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
-Janis Joplin
"In the stillness, there is dancing."
-Sue Dyer
Alone
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were--I have not seen
As others saw--I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I lov'd, I lov'd alone.
Then--in my childhood--in the dawn
Of a most stormy life--was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold--
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by--
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Rain went sweeping on
in the twilight, spilling moons
on every blade of grass.
-Sho-u
"If they give you lined paper, write the other way."
-Juan Ramon Jimenez
