It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.
I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.
Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.
Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.
Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.
You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.
At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.
Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Some ideas take you to the stars; some sinks you to the mud!
Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.
I had some Barbies, but they were few and far between the mud fights.
Even mud gives the illusion of depth.
How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?
If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.