meaning – Page 8 – Love the Dust

Learning to learn

…when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen… –Diotima, In Plato’s Drinking PartyMore

Addiction

All joy wants eternity! Wants deep, deep eternity! –Nietzsche’s ZarathustraMore

A Strange Ideal

Granted that this also is only interpretation — and you will be eager enough to make this objection? — well, so much the better. –Nietzsche, Beyond Good and EvilMore

One quick, perhaps enduring note on the shared world

As above

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When you left…

…tremors of love through your brief, / Undeniable selves…. –Mark Strand, “The Continuous Life”More

Something Different from Happiness

I chase after my work! –Nietzsche’s ZarathustraMore

Clearly enough

Is there not also still lacking–humanity itself? –NietzscheMore

I wish I could see the sky from here

The clearest sky is plenty opaqueMore

Expecting the dark

So when the danger is so great that death has become one’s hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die. –KierkegaardMore

The Breath of Indistinction

Good, better, best / never let it rest / until your good is better / and your better best. –My Great-GrandmaMore

A career in nonsense

If others saw us at our business its absurdity would shineMore

Near the edge

Things not only die at the extremities but also liveMore

Ghosts of ourselves everywhere

Ghosts rarely have time to linger anywhereMore

Slow wilting is what it is called

So many flowers, stepped upon and decayed before I had a chance to see themMore

Some dumb idea

This world . . . ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measure going out. –HeraclitusMore