The Inner Valley

The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with fearful trill of the things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn and he names the sky his own.   But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the dist

"Whoever reads philosophy reads himself as much as he reads the philosopher. I am in a dialogue with certain decisive events in my life as much as I am with the ideas on the page. Meaning is the matter of my existence. My effort to understand is a perpetual circling around a few obsessive images." ******* Dušan "Charles" Simić (Belgrade, Yugoslavia; 9 May 1938). ◙ Vakhtang Tato Akhalkatsishvili ******* “Quien lee un texto filosófico se lee a sí mismo en tanto lee al filósofo. Estoy en diálogo con ciertos eventos decisivos de mi vida en  la misma medida en que estoy en diálogo con las ideas impresas en la página. La búsqueda de sentido es la substancia de mi existencia. Mi esfuerzo por comprender es un perpetuo circular alrededor de unas pocas imágenes obsesivas.”

"But the crowd seldom can render a reason for its opinions; it thinks one thing today, another tomorrow.  For this cause, wise and prudent men are not in haste to adopt the opinions of the crowd." ******* Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 May 1813 ~ Copenhagen, 11 November 1855). ◙ Matazo Kayama.

“A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence. ”  ******* Milan Kundera (Brno, Czechoslovakia, April 1, 1929). ◙ Jan Brueghel the Elder. Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld (ca. 1600).  *******   “Una pregunta que no tiene respuesta es una barrera que no puede ser atravesada. Dicho de otro modo, precisamente aquellas preguntas que no tienen respuesta son las que determinan las posibilidades del ser humano, trazan las fronteras de la existencia humana." ~ Milan Kundera   G M T Detect language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creo