“I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.

Distracted from distraction by distraction

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.

Teach us to care and not to care

If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

I can connect Nothing with nothing

For you know only a heap of broken images

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

We never gave up. We didn’t get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.

The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Find light in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy.

Today I woke up and I wonder: What’s happening into the sea?

The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.