February 2012
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Eliza Aria.
From the ballet Wild Swans, by Elena...
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“Go out into the world and get your own living,” said the queen. “Fly like great...”
– The Wild Swans, Hans Christian Andersen
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Green Leaf.
From the ballet Wild Swans, by Elena...
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The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen →
“Far away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and one daughter, named Eliza. The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a star on his breast, and a sword by his side. They wrote with diamond pencils on gold slates, and learnt their lessons so quickly and read so easily that every one might know they were...
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All the Hemispheres
Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up to the Roof. Make a new water-mark on your excitement And love. Like a blooming night flower, Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness And giving Upon our intimate assembly. Change rooms in your mind for a day. All the hemispheres in existence Lie beside an...
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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via saloandseverine)
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“Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade...”
– Og Mandino
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Those Who Love
Those who love the most, Do not talk of their love, Francesca, Guinevere, Deirdre, Iseult, Heloise, In the fragrant gardens of heaven Are silent, or speak if at all Of fragile, inconsequent things. And a woman I used to know Who loved one man from her youth, Against the strength of the fates Fighting in somber pride, Never spoke of this thing, ...
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“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what...”
– Gandhi (via peaceblaster)
