"Inside of us, there's a continual autumn...." - Quote by Rumi

“IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.”

“And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.”

“I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.”

“It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.”

“I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.”

“We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.”

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

“First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.”

“Nothing gold can stay.”