Tag: Life

The river is famous to the fish…

The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse…

The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.
The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom…

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.

Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous [extracts]

Let its weight fall back
into the earth;
for heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas.

The trees you planted in childhood have grown
too heavy. You cannot bring them along.
Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

Rilke, Part I, Sonnet IV

To be happy at home

is the ultimate result of all ambition

Dr Samuel Johnson

The future enters into us,

in order to transform itself in us,

long before it happens.

Rilke