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Would she be able to bear never seeing him again? Never in this life?

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ the beauty of a single sycamore. You are Xerxes in Persia. Your army spreads on a vast and arid peneplain…you call to you all your sad captains, and give the order to halt. You have seen the tree with the lights in it, haven’t you? You must have. Xerxes buffeted on a plain, ambition drained in a puff. Your men are bewildered…there is nothing to catch the eye in this flatness, nothing but a hollow, hammering sky, a waste of sedge in the lee of windblown rocks, a meager ribbon of scrub willow tracing a slumbering watercourse…and that sycamore. You saw it; you will stand rapt and mute, exalted, remembering or not remembering over a period of days to shade your head with your robe. “He had its form wrought upon a medal of gold to help him remember it the rest of his life.” We all ought to have a goldsmith following us around. But it goes without saying, doesn’t it, Xerxes, that no gold medal worn around your neck will bring back the glad hour, keep those lights kindled so long as you live, forever present? Pascal saw it; he grabbed pen and paper and scrawled the one word, and wore it sewn in his shirt the rest of his life. I don’t know what Pascal saw. I saw a cedar. Xerxes saw a sycamore.

Yes: I exist inside my body. I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket. I don’t want to conquer worlds because I slept badly, And I don’t want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a stomach. Indifferent? No: a son of the earth, who, if he jumps, it’s wrong, A moment in the air that’s not for us, And only happy when his feet hit the ground again, Pow! In reality where nothing’s missing! (6/20/1919)

Yesterday I watched a curious nightfall. The cloud ceiling took on a warm tone, deepened, and departed as if drawn on a leash. I could no longer see the fat snow flying against the sky; I could see it only as it fell before dark objects. Any object at a distance –like the dead, ivy-covered walnut I see from the bay window- looked like a black and white frontispiece seen through a sheet of white tissue. It was like dying, this watching the world recede into deeper and deeper blues while the snow piled; silence swelled and extended, distance dissolved, and soon only concentration at the largest shadows let me make out the movement of falling snow, and that too failed. The snow on the yard was blue as ink, faintly luminous; the sky violet. The bay window betrayed me, and started giving me back the room’s lamps. It was like dying, that growing dimmer and deeper and then going out.

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxygen. Wouldn’t it be simpler just to rough in a slab of chemicals, a green acre of goo? You are a man, a retired railroad worker who makes replicas as a hobby. You decide to make a replica of one tree, the longleaf pine your great-grandfather planted- just a replica- it doesn’t have to work. How are you going to do it? How long do you think you might live, how good is your glue? For one thing, you are going to have to dig a hole and stick your replica trunk halfway to China if you want the thing to stand up. Because you will have to work fairly big; if your replica is too small, you’ll be unable to handle the slender, three-sided needles, affix them in clusters of three in fascicles, and attach those laden fascicles to flexible twigs. The twigs themselves must be covered by “many silvery-white, fringed, long-spreading scales.” Are your pine cones’ scales “thin, flat, rounded at the apex?” When you loose the lashed copper wire trussing the limbs to the trunk, the whole tree collapses like an umbrella. You are a sculptor. You climb a great ladder; you pour grease all over a growing longleaf pine. Next, you build a hollow cylinder around the entire pine…and pour wet plaster over and inside the pine. Now open the walls, split the plaster, saw down the tree, remove it, discard, and your intricate sculpture is ready: this is the shape of part of the air. You are a chloroplast moving in water heaved one hundred feet above ground. Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen in a ring around magnesium…you are evolution; you have only begun to make trees. You are god- are you tired? Finished?

You are not even seeing most of what's going on in the universe. On top of that, your brain filters out much of what it receives from the environment. So that what you are consciously aware of is only a fractional representation of your universe.

You can get to a place where you see clearly; that place is zero defensiveness.

You can't see clearly through defensiveness.

You can turn every ugly and damaging drama into a genuine blessing by seeing it differently. No one is suffering on purpose. We learn to give up the pleasure we feel in self-righteously blaming others. Healing happens when we see things differently. The question is: do you want suffering or peace? It's that simple.

As long as you are seeing 'what is', you cannot grow beyond it.

You haven’t done your best yet because you haven’t seen the best you can do yet. You are where you are now because you haven’t seen where you can be yet. If you see, your attitude, thought and tactics towards life will definitely change

You see, it is our pain that connects us to all of the most beautiful parts of life. Love is such a marvelous pain.

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

A lot of the stuff I am now seeing is edgy, raw kinda material.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

You only see what i choose to show you.

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked.

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

As a man seeing someone, have a decision: You can be correct or you can be glad.

Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good.

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.

Be happy and free. Be able to see psychically and understand what is going on in the universe, what your luminosity is about, and how to reorder your luminous fibers.

Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.

Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.

Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

Chemists do not usually stutter. It would be very awkward if they did, seeing that they have at times to get out such words as methylethylamylophenylium.

Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has.

Cameras get in the way of seeing.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

Content is a glimpse.

Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.

Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

Each movie is different because each audience is different. You're not dictated by what they tell you to do. You're more dictated by seeing symptoms of things you didn't intend, and how you can fix those symptoms.

Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.