Quotes: Plum Johnson

    "I speak to my friend Lesley on the phone, lamenting my pending loss of this beautiful landscape with its limitless horizon. She understands only too well; she grew up in similar surroundings.

    ""When you have an unobstructed view," she muses, "Something happens to the mind ... it expands doesn't it?" Then she adds, "But if you look up, you'll see the clouds. The thing about clouds is that they tell you how to live."

    ""What do you mean?"

    ""They're always moving ... and that's what we're supposed to do, too."" 

–– Plum Johnson (b. 1946/1947), American-born Canadian author 

Source: Plum Johnson. They Left Us Everything: a memoir. Toronto: Penguin, 2014, p. 255. 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook, 2017 c, p. 11.

Quotes: T. S. Eliot

"Old men ought to be explorers

Here or there does not matter

We must be still and still moving

Into another intensity

For a further union, a deeper communion

Through the dark cold and empty desolation,

The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters

Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning." 

                            T.S. Eliot. Four Quartets: East Coker V excerpt

 –– T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), American-born British author 

via: Sketchbook A (oatmeal), 2015, p. 10