Friday 26 October 2007

At the end of a long week

"The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide."
- E. St.Vincent Millay

"As far as a man's view ranges, as he sits in the haze on a point of outlook and gazes over the wine-dark sea, so far at a spring leap the loud -neighing horses of the gods." - Iliad

I walked up the mountain this morning.
I've been talking all week and now I have run out of words.
Some things are better left unsaid, just understood.
I've been looking for another quote but can't find one to speak for me.
I'll keep looking.

"...the conception of a simultaneous vision; a wide stretch of countryside where various incidents take place at the same time, as indeed they do in life. This simultaneous vision is particularly associated with Oriental thought, where the emphasis is on the whole picture - on what we know to be there, not only on what we see with our eyes, for 'the eyes can only see the limits, but not the whole thing.' Everything 'moves as time moves, but caught and captured as it moves through space, like a symphony: the mind plays an essential part, it is stirred by indefinable longing' " Waley in The Art of Chinese Landscape Painting in the Caves of Tun Huang - De Silva 1964.

"Life is treated neither as an instant of time nor the reflection of light from a given place at that moment, but as a continuous process working in the heart of man. -De Silva.

"Those of the audience who are appreciative are content to perfect the song in their own minds by the force of their own feeling," -Tagore

and some more

"The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.
The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set;
only there is the agony of wishing in my heart.
The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by."