Yannis Stavrou, Thessaloniki ΙΙ, oil on canvas
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away...
Emily Dickinson
A Book
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
Aphorisms
- I'm nobody, who are you?
- If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
- If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
- It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
- Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
- Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
- A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
- A wounded deer leaps the highest.
- After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
- Beauty is not caused. It is.
- Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
- Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
- Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
- Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
- Dwell in possibility.
- Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
- Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
- For love is immortality.
- Forever is composed of nows.
- Fortune befriends the bold.
- He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
- Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
- How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
- I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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