Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, 
raised a huge stone from it, 
and left it leaning. 
It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. 

“That is the way,” he said. 

“But there are no stairs.” 

“You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.”  



- GM 

"I am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold, 

like the chestnut bur,

 and my eyes like the sherry in the glass

 that the guest leaves."

-emily dickinson

“Even when real clouds or trees had been the material of the vision, they had been so only by reminding me of another world; and I did not like the return to ours. But now I saw the bright shadow coming out of the book into the real world and resting there, transforming all common things and yet itself unchanged. Or, more accurately, I saw the common things drawn into the bright shadow. In the depth of my disgraces, in the then invincible ignorance of my intellect, all this was given me without asking. That night my imagination was baptized.”    -C.S. Lewis

"My quietness has a man in it, he is transparent/

and he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets./ 

He has several likenesses, like stars and years, like numerals."