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Summer break

2011-06-02T23:07:00.002+01:00

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Dear readers, Luisa and i will make a summer pause with the blog, but we will be back soon with new matches.
Until then, enjoy the summer!

women and cats.

2011-05-31T16:16:00.002+01:00

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein

Perfect speed

2011-05-26T10:05:00.001+01:00

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

Words and edges.

2011-05-24T22:16:00.002+01:00

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway

A Cloud

2011-05-20T16:09:00.001+01:00

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

protest against the darkness.

2011-05-20T11:17:00.002+01:00

The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
George Eliot

At the close of a winter day

2011-05-12T07:28:00.000+01:00

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen

Simplicity

2011-05-08T20:08:00.003+01:00

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Coco Chanel

Language

2011-05-05T09:22:00.002+01:00

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Jane Wagner

To get to know a country

2011-05-03T15:05:00.002+01:00

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
Albert Einstein

Freshness of beginnings

2011-04-28T23:05:00.005+01:00

Every moment is a fresh beginning.
T. S. Eliot

Win the sky.

2011-04-25T11:13:00.003+01:00

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Gray faces

2011-04-21T16:59:00.001+01:00

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
William Golding

The past.

2011-04-17T04:56:00.002+01:00

The past is a mist.
Harold Pinter

Beautiful shadows

2011-04-14T22:58:00.002+01:00

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people’s eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.
Sylvia Plath

Perfumes of night

2011-04-07T08:53:00.003+01:00

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Flowers.

2011-04-03T11:07:00.003+01:00

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.
Henry Ward Beecher

Sunshine and a bench

2011-03-31T22:26:00.002+01:00

We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench.
Samuel Beckett

Great deeds.

2011-03-27T11:23:00.002+01:00

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus

Magic carpet

2011-03-25T11:41:00.002Z

Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale

Computers

2011-03-18T13:40:00.001Z

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov

The Sea

2011-03-15T17:38:00.002Z

The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Nothing gold can stay

2011-03-10T08:26:00.001Z

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost

Begin again.

2011-03-07T19:03:00.000Z

Part broken - part whole, you begin again.
Jeanette Winterson

Things have changed

2011-03-03T09:36:00.002Z

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau

intellectual refugees

2011-02-28T21:06:00.004Z

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

2011-02-24T10:57:00.003Z

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

Plant a tree.

2011-02-21T17:42:00.002Z

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

In the sea

2011-02-17T10:00:00.003Z

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

Useless beauty.

2011-02-14T10:50:00.003Z

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

Bloom

2011-02-10T10:52:00.004Z

Bloom where you're planted.
Afghan proverb

Tiny place.

2011-02-07T17:18:00.003Z

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

I've seen it all

2011-02-03T10:09:00.002Z

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

Like drops.

2011-01-31T19:47:00.003Z

There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.
Dorothy Parker

Wires of life

2011-01-27T10:49:00.004Z

All the complex wires of life were stripped out and he could see the structure of life.
Annie Proulx

Love blossom.

2011-01-24T12:38:00.003Z

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda

The road

2011-01-20T09:22:00.001Z

The Road Goes Ever On

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

J. R. R. Tolkien

No fixed plans, not intent on arriving.

2011-01-17T00:17:00.003Z

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu

Dreams

2011-01-12T10:56:00.000Z

Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it.
Sunlight darkens the earth.
Charles Wright

obvious things

2011-01-09T14:35:00.001Z

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Leaves are the snow of autumn

2011-01-06T09:42:00.004Z

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
E. E. Cummings

A rose's dress.

2011-01-03T16:27:00.002Z

Tell me, is the rose naked
or is that her only dress?
Pablo Neruda

The structure of the landscape

2010-12-30T20:44:00.002Z

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape.
Andrew Wyeth

I would rather have birds.

2010-12-27T21:39:00.003Z

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh

Luisa and Thinker wish you a Merry Christmas!

2010-12-23T17:24:00.001Z

At Christmas, all roads lead home.
Marjorie Holmes

subtle air.

2010-12-21T16:23:00.003Z

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
Doris Lessing

Water remembers

2010-12-17T12:55:00.001Z

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison

Just once around the sun.

2010-12-13T10:47:00.003Z

Vincent: A year is a long time.
Irene: Not so long. Just once around the sun.
from a movie Gattaca

World is a forest

2010-12-09T20:17:00.002Z

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
George Villiers

Light

2010-12-06T16:43:00.002Z

There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen

Ahead

2010-12-02T10:20:00.002Z

There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. Lewis

The thinness of existence

2010-11-29T16:53:00.002Z

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence. You know with painful accuracy the provenance of everything you touch and the last time you touched it. The five little cushions on your sofa stay plumped and leaning at their jaunty angle for months at a time unless you theatrically mess them. The level of the salt in your shaker decreases at the same excruciating rate, day after day.
Zoe Heller

Love

2010-11-25T10:59:00.001Z

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Jacques Deval

Fall

2010-11-22T19:03:00.003Z

How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?
Charles Wright

Poet's Obligation

2010-11-19T08:18:00.000Z

To whoever is not listening to the sea
this Friday morning, to whoever is cooped up
in house or office, factory or woman
or street or mine or harsh prison cell;
to him I come, and, without speaking or looking,
I arrive and open the door of his prison,
and a vibration starts up, vague and insistent,
a great fragment of thunder sets in motion
the rumble of the planet and the foam,
the raucous rivers of the ocean flood,
the star vibrates swiftly in its corona,
and the sea is beating, dying and continuing.

So, drawn on by my destiny,
I ceaselessly must listen to and keep
the sea's lamenting in my awareness,
I must feel the crash of the hard water
and gather it up in a perpetual cup
so that, wherever those in prison may be,
wherever they suffer the autumn's castigation,
I may be there with an errant wave,
I may move, passing through windows,
and hearing me, eyes will glance upward
saying 'How can I reach the sea?'
And I shall broadcast, saying nothing,
the starry echoes of the wave,
a breaking up of foam and quicksand,
a rustling of salt withdrawing,
the grey cry of the sea-birds on the coast.

So, through me, freedom and the sea
will make their answer to the shuttered heart.

Pablo Neruda

A true place

2010-11-18T13:16:00.003Z

It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville

Luisa and Thinker wish you a Happy New Year!!

2009-12-31T09:04:00.005Z

Be yourself, everybody else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde

A city for me

2009-12-30T08:04:00.002Z

Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,
There I'll establish a city for me.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Love match

2009-12-29T10:22:00.002Z

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The city

2009-12-28T08:29:00.000Z

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand.
Italo Calvino

Illumined freedom.

2009-12-26T20:26:00.002Z

Let my love like sunlight surround you, yet give you illumined freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Civilization

2009-12-26T10:51:00.002Z

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems
cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle
of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them.
The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization
perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his
primitive night.
- Jean Baudrillard

Hurry

2009-12-25T10:40:00.002Z

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
- Søren Kierkegaard

What if

2009-12-23T23:49:00.002Z

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten,
slimy city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Silences and nights into words.

2009-12-23T13:32:00.002Z

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote
down. I made the whirling world stand still.
- Arthur Rimbaud

It stands as a scar.

2009-12-21T23:58:00.002Z

Reading a book is only the first step in the relationship. After
you've finished it, the book enters on its real career. It stands
there as a badge, a blackmailer, a monument, a scar.
Anatole Broyard

Memories

2009-12-21T15:31:00.002Z

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them.
- Madeleine L'Engle

Faces

2009-12-20T11:11:00.002Z

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The clear view

2009-12-19T08:02:00.001Z

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The best mirror we've got

2009-12-18T09:34:00.001Z

The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert

The world is so empty

2009-12-17T08:51:00.001Z

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

White in my hair

2009-12-16T12:21:00.002Z

I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair: Time, doing this to me, may alter too My anguish, into something I can bear.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love quote

2009-12-15T08:41:00.003Z

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
Rabindranath Tagore

Watching the moods

2009-12-14T09:35:00.002Z

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
Henry David Thoreau

Love your choice.

2009-12-12T22:25:00.002Z

Choose your love, Love your choice.
Thomas S. Monson

Wide sea

2009-12-12T13:15:00.002Z

Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
- Keats, John

Happiness

2009-12-10T23:28:00.002Z

Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded
by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas

Hope is like a road

2009-12-10T12:36:00.001Z

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when
many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
- Yutang Lin

people have been banned.

2009-12-08T22:55:00.002Z

Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more
cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have
been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and
frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory
-and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between
violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?
- Eduardo Galeano

Tree at my window

2009-12-08T10:50:00.002Z

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes
on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.
- Robert Frost

The neighborhood stores

2009-12-07T20:31:00.001Z

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
- Betty Smith

Love quote

2009-12-06T00:07:00.002Z

You people with hearts have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.
Tin Woodman, from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The clown

2009-12-05T09:16:00.001Z

A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.
Søren Kierkegaard

For those who listen

2009-12-04T09:23:00.001Z

The earth has music for those who listen.
William Shakespeare

Urban landscapes

2009-12-03T10:15:00.001Z

Space to walk is also space to think, and I think that's one thing landscapes give us: places to think longer, more uninterrupted thoughts or thoughts to a rhythm other than the staccato of navigating the city.
Rebecca Solnit

Where the dreams are made

2009-12-02T09:03:00.001Z

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.
Brian Selznick

Like the palm tree

2009-12-01T10:13:00.002Z

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Sir Philip Sidney

Gardeners

2009-11-30T09:30:00.003Z

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
Beverley Nichols

I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

2009-11-29T13:47:00.002Z

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen

Dawns and sunsets in books.

2009-11-28T12:07:00.002Z

A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a room. A bookcase is as good as a view, as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books--storms, fogs, zephyrs.
Anatole Broyard

I was absent

2009-11-27T11:49:00.002Z

I pretended to work like others from morning to evening, but I was absent, dedicated to invisible countries.
Czeslaw Milosz

To love is to be vulnerable.

2009-11-26T00:37:00.002Z

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
C.S. Lewis

Tears

2009-11-25T01:47:00.001Z

Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
Pablo Neruda

There's a bluebird

2009-11-24T12:26:00.002Z

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.
Charles Bukowski

A bus came.

2009-11-23T12:03:00.002Z

A bus came. I climbed aboard and sat on the plastic seat while the things of our city turned in the windows like the images in a slot machine.
Denis Johnson

Edge

2009-11-22T10:31:00.002Z

Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying...and every day on the balcony of the sea wings open fire is born and everything is blue again like morning.
Pablo Neruda

Shadows

2009-11-21T08:36:00.002Z

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
Gregory Maguire

Insect view

2009-11-20T07:09:00.000Z

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

The journey

2009-11-19T10:14:00.001Z

The journey is my home.
Muriel Rukeyser

I love sleep

2009-11-18T07:50:00.001Z

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway