Nature and Elements

The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

When I observed he was a fine cat, saying,

Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of ‘The Natural History of Iceland’, from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus:—‘ CHAP. Lxxii. Concerning snakes. There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.’

Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Noche oscura.

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon … the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Cats and monkeys—monkeys and cats—all human life is there!

It took the whole of Creation

… With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox,

I’ve known rivers:

O fons Bandusiae, splendidior vitro.

Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret.

My heart in hiding

What would the world be, once bereft

Athene sent them a following breeze, a strong west wind that whistled over the wine-dark sea.

Athene sent them a following breeze, a strong west wind that whistled over the wine-dark sea.

Rosy-fingered dawn.

Very like leaves

All a green willow, willow;