“I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases ..”

— Pablo Neruda

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

– Rilke

“It
Happened
Again last
Night:

Love
Popped the cork on itself-
Splattered my brains
Across the
Sky.

I imagine now for ages
Something of Hafiz
Will appear

To fall like
Stars.”

– Hafiz in The Gift, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

“When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.”

– John O’Donohue

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

– John Muir

you know how sometimes you don’t do something and you don’t do something – and then it’s the perfect time to do it? yesterday was just that time. in a burst of inspiration and a flurry of delight, i joined pinterest.

oh my goodness. you know how much i love quotes, right? pinterest is an ocean of quotable inspiration. i am in love.

(as an aside, this is why i sometimes don’t join things. i am afraid of how much i will love them and of how much time i will give them. someday i will trust myself enough to know that everything ebbs and flows, including my interests, and that spending time on things i love and in places i love is always worthwhile.)

after yesterday’s fun, i just had to make my own piece of quotable inspiration.

plus, now i can finally use the pin it button on my own website!

“In the eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins.”

– Pablo Neruda

“Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.”

– John O’Donohue, in Anam Cara

“We do well to find out, each day, gradually, what we love; to put in brackets all the prejudices, pressures, opinions, authorities; to let the experience of beauty come to us; and to receive it in all its intensity and truth, without anyone having to tell us what we must like or not; to have the courage to say what touches us – if not to others, at least to ourselves.”

– Piero Ferrucci, in Beauty and the Soul