intellectual refugees

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.
Haruki Murakami

A dog's point of view

From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.
Mabel Louise Robinson

Plant a tree.

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree.
W.S. Merwin

In the sea

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea.
E.E. Cummings

Useless beauty.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.
John Steinbeck

Bloom

Bloom where you're planted.
Afghan proverb

Tiny place.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Gustave Flaubert

I've seen it all

I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
Tom Waits