„nothing which we are to perceive in this world equalsthe power of your intense fragility“

— E.E. Cummings

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„somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyondany experience, your eyes have their silence.in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose methough i have closed myself as fingers,you always open petal by petal myself as Spring opens(touching skilfully, mysteriously)her first rose or if it be your wish to close me, i andmy life will shut very beautifully, suddenlyas the heart of this flower imaginesthe snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing we are to perceive in this world equalsthe power of your intense fragility: whose texturecompels me with the colour of its countriesrendering death and forever with each breathing“
— E.E. Cummings
„Her intense and pure religiousness took the form of her having equal faith in the existence of another world and in the impossibility of comprehending it in terms of earthly life.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„In this world, who can do a thing, will not;And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power —And thus we half-men struggle.“
— Robert Browning
„Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.“
— Eckhart Tolle