“We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.”
Mark Tobey (1890–1976) American abstract expressionist painter
Source: 1950's, In: Reminiscence and Reverie, 1951, p. 231
Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), The Wind Singer (Book 1), p. 265
“We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.”
Mark Tobey (1890–1976) American abstract expressionist painter
Source: 1950's, In: Reminiscence and Reverie, 1951, p. 231
“Where do the words go
when we have said them?”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Source: Procedures For Underground
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923–2001) president of South Vietnam from 1965–75
"Speech in Saigon" in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/25/archives/speech-in-saigon-ceasefire-obstacles-seen-but-president-expects.html (25 October 1972)
Nikos Kazantzakis book Report to Greco
This is how the spirit comes. After the gale, the earthquake, and fire: a gentle, cooling breeze. This is how it will come in our own day as well. We are passing through the period of earthquake, the fire is approaching, and eventually (when? after how many generations?) the gentle, cool breeze will blow.
"The Desert. Sinai.", Ch. 21, p. 278
Report to Greco (1965)
“I am a rocket
On fire.
Look at me go, with my tail on fire…”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
Jimmy Driftwood The Battle of New Orleans
"The Battle of New Orleans" (1936)
Context: p>Ole Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise,
If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eyes.
We held our fire 'til we seed their faces well,
Then we opened up our squirrel guns an' really gave 'em... well! Yeah, they ran through the briars an' they ran through the brambles
An' they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.</p
Mark Twain book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“It is not where we have come from but where we are going that counts!”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 193
Radhanath Swami (1950) Gaudiya Vaishnava guru
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The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami (Tulsi Books, 2010)
Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City
http://ww.tufts.edu/home/feature/?p=commencement2007&p4=4
Optimism