Poems, Quotes, Analects, Proverbs

From Parabola:

Photograph: Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) “Iris”






"For the sake of a single poem,

you must see many cities,

many people and things,

you must understand animals,

must feel how birds fly,

and know the gesture which small flowers

make when they open in the morning."



— Rainer Maria Rilke