Quotes Steinem, Rilke, Van Dyke, e.e. cummings, Shakespeare, Frost et al

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
- Gloria Steinem


Wonders happen if we can succeed in passing through the harshest danger;
but only in a bright and purely granted achievement can we realize the wonder. 
- Rainer Maria Rilke


ALWAYS REMEMBER: 
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."  
 -- Henry Van Dyke




open your heart:
i'll give you a treasure
of tiniest world
a piece of forever
-  e. e. cummings

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"open your heart:
i’ll give you a treasure
of tiniest world
a piece of forever with

summitles younger than
angels are mountains
rivery forests
towerful towns(queen

poet king float
sprout heroes of moonstar
flutter to and
swim blossoms of person)through

musical shadows while hunted
by daemons
seethe luminous
leopards(on wingfeet of thingfear)

come ships go
snowily sailing
perfect silence.
Absolute ocean"
— open your heart: by e. e. cummings

Winter Becomes Spring

Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure…
- William Shakespeare





My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes. 

Two Tramps in Mud-Time, Robert Frost







© Paul Nicklen, iLCP