Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round read more

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.

There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.

There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is read more

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.