(He) lived a Yeatsian dream life where peace came dropping slow.
— Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
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The satisfying release of body-weight into the support of the earth and no thing in particular to do or be.
Just savoring the texture of life in this moment.
— Camille Maurine, Meditation Secrets for Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner Peace
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There is a magnificent quiet that comes from giving up the regular order of your life.
— Ann Patchett, from “These Precious Days” in Harper’s Magazine, December 9, 2020
Take a moment to read the entire essay: “These Precious Days.” Long, but worthy. Patchett’s bestsellers include Bel Canto (2001) and The Dutch House (2019), The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 2020.
I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound…
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from “Sudden Light” in “The Complete Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti”
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— Ono No Komachi, tr. by Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Oratani, from The Ink Dark Moon Love Poems by Ono No Komachi and Izumi Shikibu
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How many times have you noticed that it’s the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning.
— Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers
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Perhaps what eternal recurrence means is not that our life will actually repeat itself forever, but rather that we should not rest content until we have reached a point where we love it enough just as it is, to wish it were indeed so. Play it again, I say.
— Helen Morrison, (Katie Holmes), Coda (2019)
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Dissolve.
A moment of quiet.
The dust settles.
— Wallace Stegner, Recapitulation
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