you can’t get away
you can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. Ernest Hemingway
Sun Rise
Once I spent a
Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was … Read more
When you\\’re lost in
When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you’ve just wandered off the path, that you’ll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have … Read more
The rising sun complies
The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do. Edmund Waller
This is a long
This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered. Dwight D. Eisenhower
No matter how dark
No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away. David Matthews
It is hard to
It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,’ she said. It seems to be true,’ he admitted. ‘I wonder why.’ Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems … Read more
I get up at
I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature. David Eddings
And here Dante describes
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world… The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and … Read more
And now I am
And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits. Czeslaw Milosz