18 ordspråk av Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman
 A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. |
| Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it, |
| Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. |
| Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. |
| Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. |
| I don't want to be a passenger in my own life |
| I don't want to be a passenger in my own life |
| I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. |
| I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. |
| I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second. |
| It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. |
| Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. |
| Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains... |
| Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. |
| Success produces success, just as money produces money |
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