RAMBLING LIFE

Words are unnecessary,
There being nothing to learn:
How sad and exemplary
Is an animal's dark heart!

It has no urge to instruct
And no use for words,
And swims like a young dolphin
Along the grey gulfs of the world.
-Osip Mandelstam

I love bathing in the river; you see
your own body through water,
gold light reflects the surface, and
when you dive in and open your eyes
down there, everything is so green, so
green, and you see the little fish rushing
by... And it is not true that the body
is sinful, that beauty is sinful...
-Mikhail Kuzmin (from WINGS)

Keep a journal. Pay so much honour to the visits of truth
to your mind as to record them.
Emerson

"I think it was Robert Louis Stevenson who said this," Mortensen says, "it was about meandering through a career, or the arts in general, without seeming to have a deliberate plan. He said, 'To travel hopefully is better than to arrive, and the true success is in the labor.' That's a great line, 'To travel hopefully.' That's what I'd like to do."

Viggo Mortensen