Diane Ackerman ( 10 of 12 )
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length read more
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as
well.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of read more
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood read more
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern read more
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
Success produces success, just as money produces money
Success produces success, just as money produces money
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at read more
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.