Echoing Words

There is Pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a Rapture on the lonely shore,
There is Society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’re express, yet cannot all conceal.

Lord Byron
Solitude

We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Songs and a dream are left for me

Blues Traveler
Sweet Pain

The sacred and profane,
pleasure and the pain

Dire Straits
On Every Street

One man looks at a dying bird and thinks there’s nothing but unanswered pain. That death’s got the final word, it’s laughing at him. Another man sees that same bird, feels the glory, feels something smiling through it.

Pvt. Witt
“The Thin Red Line”

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

Woody Allen

A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says,
Why the long face?

At any moment, a great moment.

New York Yankees slogan

Now that I’ve met you
would you object to
never seeing each other again

Aimee Mann
Deathly

There are no events but thoughts and the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

Annie Dillard