Helen Keller 1880-1968 ~ Suzanne Vega 1959- ...My Favorite Plum

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind;
Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird,
As if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow.
Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail.
Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel,
As if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again.

e.e. cummings 1894-1962 ~ Bjork 1965- ...Venus As A Boy

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as spring opens
touching (skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose.

Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 ~ Steppenwolf (John Kaye 1944- & Rushton Moreve 1948-1981) ...Magic Carpet Ride

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark
From another person. Each of us has cause to thank with
Deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682 ~ Dave Pike 1938- ...Mather

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

William Blake 1757-1827 ~ Jim Morrison 1943-1971 ...Light My Fire ~ Astrud Gilberto 1940-

Energy is eternal delight.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ James ...Skindiving

The waterfall sings "I find my song, when I find my freedom".

Epictetus AD55-AD135 ~ Ozark Mountain Daredevils (John Dillon) ...Standing On The Rock

Nothing great is created suddenly,
Anymore than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.