“Genesis does not stop, your god continues creating you.”

— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

Whoever uses the spirit that is

in him creatively is an artist. To

make living itself an art, that is the goal

.

 

― Henry Miller

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more.
And we also once, Never again. But this having been
once, although only once, to have been of the earth,
seems irrevocable.

Neither childhood nor future

grows less...surplus of existence

welling up in my heart.

Rainer Marie Rilke

The Ninth Elegy

Duino Elegies

To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.

W. S. Merwin

I have with me all that I do not know.  I have lost none of it.

W. S. Merwin

Was Is

Was = is

What was

is.

What wasn't

never was

(and isn't).

The friend that isn't

wasn't.

Everything, everything

happens at the same time

and that time is now.

Always.

Rather than hold his hands properly

arched off the keys, like cats

with their backs up,

Monk, playing block chords,

hit the keys with his fingertips well

above his wrists,

shoulders up, wrists down

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane 

at Carnegie Hall,1957

You can be a genius and be sane.