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Quotes About Reflection

Wer auf dem Kopf geht, der hat den Himmel als Abgrund unter sich.
~ Paul Celan
Ich bin du,wenn ich ich bin.
~ Paul Celan
Go blind now, today: eternity also is full of eyes - in them drowns what helped images down the way they came, in them fades what took you out of language, lifted you out with a gesture which you allowed to happen like the dance of the words made of autumn and silk and nothingness.
~ Paul Celan
spills of mire I swallowed inside the tower
~ Paul Celan
Your hair waves once more when I weep. With the blue of your eyes you lay the table of love: a bed between summer and autumn. We drink what somebody brewed, neither I nor you nor a third: we lap up some empty and last thing. We watch ourselves in the deep sea's mirrors and faster pass food to the other: the night is the night, it begins with the morning, beside you it lays me down. ("The Years From You To Me")
~ Paul Celan
The Years from You to Me" Your hair waves once more when I weep. With the blue of your eyes you lay the table of love; a bed between summer and autumn. We drink what somebody brewed neither I nor you nor a third: we lap up some empty and last thing. We watch ourselves in the deep sea's mirror and faster pass food to the other: the night is the night, it begins with the morning, beside you it lays me down.
~ Paul Celan
The poem is lonely. It is lonely and enroute. — from "The Meridian
~ Paul Celan
BEFORE YOUR LATE FACE, a loner wandering between nights that change me too, something came to stand, which was with us once already, un- touched by thoughts.
~ Paul Celan
U izvoru tvojih o?iju more drži svoju rije?. Ja ondje bacam srce koje je boravilo kod ljudi.
~ Paul Celan
Una palabra — vos sabés: un cadáver. Vamos a lavarla vamos a peinarla, vamos a volver su ojo hacia el cielo.
~ Paul Celan
Einmal, der Tod hatte Zulauf, verbargst du dich in mir.
~ Paul Celan
I am a consciousness. The landscape thinks itself through me.
~ Paul Cezanne
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
~ Paul Cezanne
This teaching is to live as we think, otherwise, sooner or later, we end up thinking as we lived.
~ Unknown
He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.
~ Unknown
the riverbank. There
~ Unknown
In each chapter of this book, I'll be peeling back a very thin layer of that onion (hopefully without the tears).
~ Unknown
For many people a job is more than an income — it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.
~ Paul Clitheroe
People were asked to recall and rank those past decisions that they most regret.
~ Paul Collier
The regrets that fester are overwhelmingly about failures to meet 'oughts', when we have let someone down, breaching an obligation.5 We learn from such regrets to keep our obligations. Although our decisions are biased towards momentary folly, when we consider our actions 'oughts' usually trump wants.
~ Paul Collier
We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days!
~ Unknown
You want to look in the mirror and stop the behaviour you don't want your kid to emulate.
~ Unknown
watching them
~ Unknown
Lewis, C. S. "The Weight of Glory." In The Weight of Glory and Other
~ Paul Copan