The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him, showing him the fire of my own heart, fire like his presence. What could such glory be if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters, were you like me once, long ago, before you were human? Did you permit yourselves to open once, who would never open again? Because in truth I am speaking now the way you do. I speak because I am shattered.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.