Quotes 12

A digital glass installation by Sally Weber

Quotes in Panel #12

Location: Down bottom yellow band
Quote from: Pablo Neruda’s poem, "In the Night"

In the Night
In the night we shall go in,
we shall go in to steal
a flowering, flowering branch.
We shall climb over the wall
in the darkness of the alien garden,
two shadows in the shadow.
Winter is yet gone,
and the apple tree appears
suddenly changed into
a fragment of cascade stars.
In the night we shall go in
up to its trembling firmament,
and your hands, your little hands
and mine will steal the stars.
And silently to our house
in the night and the shadow,
perfume’s silent step,
and with starry feet,
the clear body of spring.

Location: upper left red
Quote from: Proverbs 3:13-14 attributed to King Solomon
Submitted by: John Gentry

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandize of it is better than silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

Location: Middle right red
Quote By: Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly.

Location: middle pink vertical
Quote By; Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Location: Bottom right green corner
Quote By: Antoine De Saint-Exupery,
Ref: Little Prince

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Location: Bottom green band
Quote By: Szaja Gottlieb, "Quest"

Quest
without
what would the spirit be
earth weighed by gravity
not
a never ending spiral
touching
the
stars

Location: Green right, down to side
Quote By: Martha Graham to Agnes De Mille

There is vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it; it will never exist through any other medium, and will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

Location: Upper Green band
Quote By: Lao-Tzu
Submitted by: George Tillquist

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with one step.

Location: Middle white line
Quote By: J. Krishnamurti
Submitted By: Sally Kopf

Truth is a pathless land.

Location: Yellow band
Quote By: Pablo Neruda
Taken from the poem "Today isn’t everything"
Ref: Late and Postumous Poems 1968-1974
Edited and translated by Ben Belitt, first edition
Published by: Grove Press, New York, NY, 1988

Spanish version:

No Todo es Hoy en el Dia

Algo de ayer quedó en el día de hoy,
fragmento de vasija o de bandera
o simplemente una noción de luz,
un alga del acuario de la noche,
una fibra que no se consumió,
pura tenacidad, aire de oro:
algo de lo que transcurrió persiste
diluido, muriendo en las saetas
del agresivo sol y sus combates.

Si ayer no continúa
en esta deslumbrante independencia
del día autorotario
que vivimos,
por qué como un portento de gaviotas
giró hacia atrás, como si titubeara
y mezclara su azul con el azul
que ya se fue?

Contesto.

Andentro de la luz
circula tu alma
aminorándose hasta que se extingue,
creciendo como un toque de campana.

Y entre morir y renacer
no hay tanto
espacio, ni es tan dura
la frontera.
Es redonda la luz como un anillo
y nos movemos en su movimiento.

English version:

Today Isn't Everything

Something of yesterday clings to today,
a flag or a potsherd;
or simply a notion of light,
the scum on midnight’s aquarium,
an unwithering thread--
essential tenacity, gold in the air:
something persists, whatever passes away
a little diminished, to fall under the arrows
of the hostile sun and its combats.

Else, why
in the glowing autonomy
of the positive day
the we lived
did a portent of seagulls
stay on, circling back as if it would stagger
the mix of its blue with the blue
that had vanished?

I tell you:

Inside the light
your soul makes its circle,
refining itself to extinction,
or enlarging its rings like the stroke of a bell.

And between death and rebirth
the space is less grand
than we thought, the frontier
less implacable.
Light’s shape is round as a ring
and we move ourselves by its movements.