But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.
I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.
I made music on Seven the same way as on the other albums. I only used acoustic instruments. . . I'm looking for instruments that have vocal sounds, forgotten instruments like the guimbri. . . The first and second albums were about the voice, what came before. This album is about introducing those sounds into modern, Western life.
Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, the ocean, or a star.
We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives.