vanguard

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from Mars."
Orson Welles

time

“Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay.”
Plato

seed humility

“We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising."
- Maya Angelou ~

many

“There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.”
Ray Charles

various view

“A happy rural seat of various view:
Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm;
Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind,
Hung amiable—Hesperian fables true."
John Milton

next

“And when he next doth ride abroad,
May I be there to see!”
William Cowper

bewitched

“When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.”
Martin Luther

scenes

“Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.”
~ Soren Kierkegaard ~

misty morn

“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like silence, listening
To silence."
~ Thomas Hood ~

vision

“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
~ Henry Miller ~

ruddy

"On woodlands ruddy with autumn
The amber sunshine lies;"
~ William Cullen Bryant ~

untimely

"Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."
~ William Shakespeare ~

grace

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~ John Donne ~

projectiles

“The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence."
~ D.H. Lawrence ~

hungry

“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
~ Mother Teresa ~

one for the road

“It's quarter to three there's no one in the place except you and me
So set 'em up Joe I've got a little story you oughta know
We're drinking my friend to the end of a brief episode
Just give me one for my baby and one more for the road”
~ Willie Nelson ~

intangible

“The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched”
~ Henry David Thoreau ~

holy edifice

"Should I go to church
And see the holy edifice of stone”
~ William Shakespeare ~

quiet life

"I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
~ Albert Einstein ~

weathered

"I have weathered the storm,
I have beaten out my exile."
~ Ezra Pound ~

harmony

“There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

companionable

“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
~ Henry David Thoreau ~

paradise

“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see."
~ Edward Abbey ~

our fill

"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short,
but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit,
and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day."
~ John Donne ~

if only

"If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!"
~ Antonio Porchia ~

echo

"Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
~T.S. Eliot ~

adorned

"By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned,
By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned!
~ Alexander Pope ~

high promise

“Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.”
~ Horace ~

crazed

“Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.”
~ Eugenio Montale ~