Random Esquire

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. –Bob Hope

I know well enough that this image fixed forever in my mind is not you, but the shadow of love which exists in me… and although I know this, I then think that without you, without that rare excuse you gave me,… now a tenderness today would be there within, sleeping still, and lying in hope… then I thank you. –Luis Cernuda

Come, come, whoever you are,

Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving – it

doesn’t matter,

Ours is not a caravan of despair,

Come, even if you have broken your vow a

hundred times.

Come, come again, come.

–Jelaluddin Rumi

Something we were withholding made us weak

Until we found it was ourselves.

–Robert Frost

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. –J. Krishnamurti

I do not take drugs. I am drugs. –Salvador Dali

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. –Ernest Hemingway

Life is ever

Since man was born

Licking honey

From a thorn.

–Louis Ginsberg

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it. –Annie Dillard