#psi

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#poetry #solipsism #metaphysics

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. ↗

— Shania Twain

#come and go #down #feather #go #life

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. ↗

— James Buchan

#cause #classes #collapsing #devil #effect

You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#art #before #creating #disseminate #easy

Livia held her spatula as Blake whispered in her ear. “I see us just like this a hundred years from now, old and deaf. I’ll be the luckiest man.” Emotion caught her—this was all she wanted. Simple, beautiful frittata moments with this man. “Someday, Livia, I’ll be man enough to buy the food,” he continued. “I’ll give you an oven. I’ll try so hard. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#love #poughkeepsie #beauty

She kissed his lips and felt his smile form. Alone in this beautiful space, Blake and Livia made things right. Blake kissed her slowly and patiently, like he had all the time in the world. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#love #poughkeepsie #beauty

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. ↗

— Tom Waits

#down #guess #i #lived #things

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. ↗

— Alice Walker

#against #coconut #collapsing #defending #father

No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around. ↗

— H. R. Giger

#down #i #never #out #turned

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#down #turning #upside #upside down #women