Balance Quote by Jean-Henri Fabre

“Behind the harrows, the long seeders—twelve curved iron penes erected in the foundry, orgasms set by gears, raping methodically, raping without passion. The driver…

— John Steinbeck

“They were falling back into familiarity, into common ground, into the dirty gray. Just ordinary humans in ordinary opaque boiled-egg light, without grace, without…

— Kiran Desai

“Alas! the forbidden fruits were eaten, And thereby the warm life of reason congealed. A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam, Like…

— Rumi Masnavi-I Ma'navi

“Everywhere the grain stood ripe and the hot afternoon was full of the smell of the ripe wheat, like the smell of bread baking…

— Willa Cather

“Looking at the turmoil of life from this standpoint we find all occupied with its want and misery, exerting all their strength in order…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“And blood, in all the cities through which he passed, ran down. There seemed no door, anywhere, behind which blood did not call out,…

— James Baldwin

“Celia realized she'd shocked Mr. Pinter when his thick black brows drew together in a frown. His lean form seemed even more rigid than…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“A new legend swept Oregon, from Roseburg all the way north to the Columbia, from the mountains to the sea. It traveled by letter…

— David Brin

“Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns of hats, the sun…

— Philip Larkin

“The next sound you hear in the Garden of Eden is the heaving, lurching, ear-splitting shatter of shalom, of God’s peace, screeching violently out…

— Matt Chandler

“Such were the shepherds of Judea! In appearance, rough and savage as the gaunt dogs with them around the blaze; in fact, simple-minded, tender-hearted;…

— Lew Wallace

“The strong and strange thing—that which moves on its way as do birth and death, and the rising and setting of the sun—had begun…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett