Boundaries Quote by Dag Hammarskjold

I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I…

— Mary Oliver

“Things stood still, not a leaf trembled on the branches, while the sky slowly lost its color and became an expanse that looked like…

— Ayn Rand

“A full moon, although less splendid than that earlier on,lit everything around. Before I reached the point where I would have to leave the…

— Saramago, José

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain…

— Black Elk

“Things vanished. People vanished. Clouds gave way to sun gave way to night. Only feelings, like spirits, endured, branded to the back of our…

— Alan Heathcock

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love…

— Mark Strand

You were standing in the wake of devastation And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown And with the cataclysm raining down…

— Anonymous

“What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to horizon, and thin white wreaths…

— E. Nesbit

“First Snow The snow began here this morning and all day continued, its white rhetoric everywhere calling us back to why, how, whence such beauty…

— mary oliver

“stepped out of the tent on to nothing. Sledge and tent were there, Estraven stood beside me, but neither he nor I cast any…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The deeper I went into the valley, the greater the rewards. First, it was a clump of birches, the bottoms wrapped in thick fog,…

— Megan Rich