love's memory

“When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.”

~ John Dryden

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

~Terry Pratchett

That’s all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.

~Robert M. Pirsig

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer.  My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music.  It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.  A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.

~Ada Louise Huxtable

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.

~John Vance Cheney

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

~Anne Frank

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

—Emily Carr

The dog is the only animal that has seen his god. 

~Author Unknown

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”

—Orson Welles

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. 

~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke