Source: Don't Die, My Love
Source: Lectures on Philosophy (1959), p. 87
“The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.”
Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
Context: Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.
quote in 1969
Quote from 'The collection', MOMA, online http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=80712
1960s
“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
Source: Written on the Body
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 8
Context: I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have trouble seeing this—that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. They associate metal with given shapes—pipes, rods, girders, tools, parts—all of them fixed and inviolable, and think of it as primarily physical. But a person who does machining or foundry work or forge work or welding sees "steel" as having no shape at all. Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not.
“I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.”
Source: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Source: Past Master (1968), Ch. 7
