
“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 14
Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”
Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 14
“With shouts the torrents down the gorges go,
And storms are formed behind the storm we feel”
Misgivings, st. 2
Battle Pieces: And Aspects of the War (1860)
Context: With shouts the torrents down the gorges go,
And storms are formed behind the storm we feel:
The hemlock shakes in the rafter, the oak in the driving keel.
Speaking during a photo op at the White House https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/06/trump-gathers-with-military-leaders-says-maybe-its-the-calm-before-the-storm/ (6 October 2017)
2010s, 2017, October
“Tommy: I just wanna see more of you!
Storm: Tommy?
Tommy: Yes?
Storm: 6 Letters. Google.”
'Just What I Needed' RS:SN Performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAqJCjbI4U8 July 18, 2006
“I would not live alway: I ask not to stay
Where storm after storm rises dark o’er the way.”
I would not live alway (published 1826), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
Context: And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.
Chapter One