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Under thy great sky in solitude and silence,

with humble heart shall I stand before thee face to face. Rabindranath Tagore

THAT crazed girl improvising her music.

Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,

Heroically lost, heroically found. Yeats

Bluebird

there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not goingto let anybody seeyou.there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I pour whiskey on him and inhalecigarette smokeand the whores and the bartendersand the grocery clerksnever know thathe'sin there.

there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get out

but I'm too tough for him,I say,stay down, do you want to messme up?you want to screw up theworks?you want to blow my book sales inEurope?there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too clever, I only let him outat night sometimes

when everybody's asleep.I say, I know that you're there,so don't besad.then I put him back,but he's singing a littlein there, I haven't quite let himdieand we sleep together likethatwith oursecret pactand it's nice enough tomake a manweep, but I don't

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weep, doyou?

Charles Bukowski

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he nevergrows lonely or

bored.

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

Milarepa

Put worldly concerns behind you. Enter retreat with the sincere intention to

attain unsurpassable great enlightenment. -From Jamgon Kongtruls Retreat

Manual

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than his

own soul.Marcus Aurelius

the famous cubist artist, Pablo Picasso once said:Without great solitude

no serious work is possible. Writers, photographers, painters, film

makers have commented on solitude through their art.

too long in the company of others and it feels that my souls oxygen supply has been

siphoned off.

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Jean-Paul SartreThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Aldous HuxleyThere is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but Nature moreGeorge Gordon ByronI would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Henry David ThoreauIn order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." Albert Camus

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way

of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our

innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the

midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves

to be one with all being.Hermann Hesse

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I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine

and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with

myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

Henry Miller,Tropic of Cancer

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water.Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on

it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

Charles Bukowski,Factotum

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.

AristotleI need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead

man.Kafka

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Patricia HighsmithIn solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

Henri J.M. NouwenNever close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles DickensBeing deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you

courage.

Lao Tzu

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