Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England now! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows! Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops at the bent spray's edge. That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Robert Browning, Home-Thoughts, from Abroad

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 "Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches" 

- Italo Calvino

"He, still unvanquished, eternally directed toward the future, whose own restless energies never leave him in peace, so that his future digs like a spur into the flesh of every present" 

- Friedrich Nietzsche 

“Nothing dates faster than people’s fantasies about the future” 

-  Robert Hughes

“There’s no such thing as the future. There is always now. I can’t be anywhere else but now" 

- Nona Hendryx 

 

 "When I first saw Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction' , I turned to my wife during the screening & said, “Everything I have done is now outdated.” I realised that the ironic movement had surpassed the existential movement. It’s a very important film in film history."

- Ingmar Bergman

 Philosophy, as I have understood it hitherto, is a voluntary retirement into regions of ice and mountain-peaks — the seeking — out of everything strange and questionable in existence, everything upon which, hitherto, morality has set its ban. Through long experience, derived from such wanderings in forbidden country, I acquired an opinion very different from that which may seem generally desirable, of the causes which hitherto have led to men’s moralizing and idealizing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

 

“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. ”

― Gaston Bachelard , The Poetics of Space

“Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.”

― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

 "When you observe yourself within, you see moving images, a world of images, generally known as fantasies, yet these fantasies are facts. It is a fact that a man has such and such a fantasy, and it is such a tangible fact, for instance, that when a man has a certain fantasy, another man may lose his life… Everything was fantasy to begin with, and fantasy has a proper reality, that is not to be forgotten. Fantasy is not nothing, it is of course not a tangible object, but it is a fact nevertheless… Psychical events are facts, are realities, and when you observe the stream of images within, you observe an aspect of the world, of the world within” 

–  Carl Jung, from The World Within: C.G. Jung In His Own Words, a documentary

 

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

—Charles Bukowski