Category — Words for thought

londontown, 2009

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

- Leonard Cohen

[acrylic, foil and paper on canvas]

“All of us are trees in winter, with little to give, stripped of leaves and growth, whom God loves unconditionally, anyway.”

- Brother Lawrence

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

― Albert Einstein

“Soon silence will have passed into legend.  Man has turned his back on silence.

Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation…tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego.  His anxiety subsides.  His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.”

- Jean Arp

“A (wo)man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.”

- Leonard Ravenhill

“Either we are at the mercy of life, or in the hands of God.”

- Dan MacDonald, Grace Toronto

‎”I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.”

- Mary Oliver (Starlings in Winter,) by way of Jocelyn Durston. Read my profile on Jocelyn, and her Farm for a Year adventures, here.

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

- Robert Frost

“Here’s a toast to everyone on this earth who’s ever been eager-no, desparate- for even the smallest sign that there exists something finer, larger, and more miraculous about our inner selves than we could ever have supposed. Here’s to all of us reaching out our hands to other people everywhere, reaching out to pull them from the iceburgs on which they stand frozen, to pull them through the burning hoops of fire that frighten them, to help them climb over the brick walls that block their paths. Let us reach out to shock and captivate people into new ways of thinking.”

- Douglas Coupland, Player One (via my friend Kathryn, thanks Kat!)

I thought I’d start a neat little weekly feature called Word for thought Wednesday.

What do you think? Worth a weekly gander?