Admiration is a very complicated thing. It’s like an alchemy; you admire something and then one day you realize that this admiration has permeated your skin.
Admiration is a very complicated thing. It’s like an alchemy; you admire something and then one day you realize that this admiration has permeated your skin.
“The light within her eyes, which slays
Base thoughts and stilleth troubled waters,
Is like the gold where sunlight plays
Upon the still o’ershadowed waters.
When anger is there mingled
There comes a keener gleam instead,
Like flame that burns beneath thin jade.”
Ezra Pound | “Canzon: The Spear”