Surround me like a warm bath
Sum me up like an epitaph
Be blatant as a bailiff
I want my lips to blister when we kiss

- Wild Beasts, Bed of Nails

'When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.'

- R. Buckminster Fuller

'Ask yourself if what you are about to say would be an improvement on silence.'

- Baba Hari Dass

'This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.'

- Virginia Woolf (thanks to oursin)

'Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.'

- Martha Graham.

'Permit the words to lead you to the heart words come from.'

- Ghost Light, Joseph O'Connor

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

'Work honestly
meditate every day
meet people without fear
and play.'

- Baba Hari Dass

We're catching bullets in our teeth
It's hard to do but they're so sweet
And if they take a couple out
We try to work things out
We're catching bullets with our
Heads and hearts and all the darkest parts of us
It's strange to find such light
In such endless night

- Tunng, Bullets

... Do I need

To spell it out? Is it possible
That none of you can understand?

- Tom Paulin, 'Where Art is a Midwife'