“Mystery” | Anthony Satori
“A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.”
— E. B. White
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Porcelain
“Porcelain” | (Pretty Girls, pg. 78) | Anthony Satori
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”
— Khalil Gibran
The Lightness of Being
“The Lightness of Being” | Anthony Satori
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch
The Dreaming Itself
“The Dreaming Itself” | Anthony Satori
“I immediately fell into a blank thoughtless trance wherein it was again revealed to me ‘This thinking has stopped’ and I sighed because I didn’t have to think anymore and felt my whole body sink into a blessedness surely to be believed, completely relaxed and at peace with all the ephemeral world of dream and dreamer and the dreaming itself.”
— Jack Kerouac
Windblown
“Windblown” | Anthony Satori
“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.” — Goethe
A Music Conducive to Dream
“A Music Conducive to Dream” | Anthony Satori
“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel.” — Albert Camus
The Hyacinth Girl
“The Hyacinth Girl” | Anthony Satori
“‘You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; / They called me the hyacinth girl.’ / — Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, / Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not / Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither / Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, / Looking into the heart of light, the silence.” – T. S. Eliot (The Waste Land)
Bright Like a Diamond
“Portrait of M” | Anthony Satori
“The light of the sun seems to be poured down, and to be poured, indeed, in every direction, but not poured away; for this pouring is an extension, and that is why the sun’s beams are called ‘rays’ (aktines), because they are extended (ekteinesthai).
“And what kind of thing a ray is you can readily see if you look at sunlight entering a darkened room through a narrow opening. For it stretches out in a straight line and comes to rest, so to speak, on any solid body that intercepts it, cutting off the air that lies beyond; and there it rests, neither slipping off nor falling down.
“The pouring forth and diffusion of our understanding should follow a comparable pattern, and by no means be a pouring away, but rather, an extension; and it should not make a forcible or violent impact on the obstacles that it encounters nor sink down, but stand firm and illuminate the object that receives it, for that which fails to welcome it will deprive itself of light.”
– Marcus Aurelius
Blue Juniper II
“Blue Juniper II” | Anthony Satori
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing, than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.” – E. E. Cummings
To The Nines
“To The Nines” | Anthony Satori
Class never goes out of style.
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