Beauty

You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?
- John Steinbeck

time conscious.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, “there goes another day of my life, never to return,” you will become time conscious.
- A. B. Zu Tavern

The moon

The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.
- Carl Sandburg

Poetry

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
- Carl Sandburg

Perhaps.

Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Ocean.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
- William Wordsworth

Rain!

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
- Henry Ward Beecher