The breeze at dawn has secrets
to tell you. Don't go back
to sleep.

--Rumi

“A humanity that thinks materialistically will produce frightful beings in the future, and a humanity that thinks spiritual thoughts, so works upon and transforms the future organism that beautiful human bodies will proceed from it.

What the materialistic mode of thought brings about has not yet been completed. We have two streams today, a great materialistic one which fills the earth, and the small spiritual stream which is restricted to but few human beings.”

— Rudolf Steiner

consistency is terrific:
shark-mouth
grubby interior with an
almost perfect body,
long blazing hair—it confuses me
and others

she runs from man to man
offering endearments

she speaks of love

then breaks each man
to her will

shark-mouthed
grubby interior

we see it too late:
after the cock gets swallowed
the heart follows

her long blazing hair
her almost perfect body
walks down the street
as the same sun
falls upon flowers.

~ Bukowski

"Your task is simply to find the one or few things that you can excel in, and then make it your primary business in life to excel in those ways. To do otherwise, to disregard the treasures with which you are at least potentially gifted, is simply to waste your life – a path to nothingness that is, alas, only too common.”

~ Richard Taylor

“I see the beauty in the smallest things, and I find wonder in the most ordinary events. I am always looking for the hidden meaning, the secret message. I am always trying to understand the mystery of life.

I know that I will never understand everything, but that doesn’t stop me from trying.

I am content to live in the mystery, to be surrounded by the unknown.

I am content to be a seeker, a pilgrim, a traveler on the road to nowhere.”

— Henry Miller

“All these people in the street make me think of exhausted gorillas, every one of them tired of imitating man!”

— Emil Cioran

“Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.”

—Jim Morrison

"The chances are that during this transition period of global wars, lasting perhaps a century or two, art will become less and less important.

A world torn by indescribable upheavals, a world preoccupied with social and political transformations, will have less time and energy to spare for the creation and appreciation of works of art."

-- Henry Miller

“It’s not so much
that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing.
there’s no release,
just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say,
the less there is to say.
even the best books
are dry sawdust.”

—Charles Bukowski

"I am a distinguished outcast in American letters — a renegade and recalcitrant, hated and feared by all cliques and snoring phantom celebrities, from ultra-radical to ultra-conservative — an isolated wanderer in the realm of intellect and lithely fantastic emotion, hemmed in by gnawing hostilities and blandly simulating venoms."

-- Maxwell Bodenheim

"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."

— Schopenhauer

“Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.”

― John Berger

“The problem is that we cannot imagine a future where we possess less but are more.”

~ Charles Bowden

"the best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them."

--Bukowski

"Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born."

—Nikola Tesla

“April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.”

― T.S. Eliot

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

—Tom Robbins

“I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying to break through to what is underneath or I am dead.

I can feel the surface trembling—it seems ready to give but it never does.

I am uninterested in current events. How can I justify this? How can I explain it?

I don't want to have the same vocabulary I've always had. I want something richer, broader, more penetrating and powerful.”

—James Salter

“We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary."

--Terence McKenna