Aaron Weiss Quotes

...as I go showing off again Self-impressed by how well I can put myself down! And there I go again To the next further removed level Of that same exact feigned humility!

A fish swims through the sea While the sea is in a certain sense, Contained within the fish! Oh, what am I to think Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes Could not explain If all the forest trees were pens And all the oceans - ink?

When the dryness and the rain finally drink from one another The gentle cup of mutually surrendered tears!

Isa ruhu-lah 'alaihis-salat was-salam!

I do not exist, we faithfully insist, While watching sink the heavy ship of everything we knew. If ever You come near I'll hold up high a mirror Lord, I could never show you anything as beautiful as You.

I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever coming back.

Caught me making eyes at the other boatman's wives, And heard me laughing louder at the jokes told by their daughters, I'd set my course for land, but you well understand It takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters.

The Son of the widow You raised from the dead... Where did His soul go When He died again?

Grape on the vine... why not be crushed to make wine?

Down by the tracks watching trains go by To remind me: there are places that aren't here.

And You surround me, You're pretty but You're all I can see, Like a thick fog... If there was no way into God, I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long.

But if I didn't have You as my guide, I'd still wander lost in Sinai.

On a bus ride into town, I wondered out loud, "Why am I going to town?" As I looked around at the billboards and the stores I thought, "Why do I look around?" And I kissed the filthy ground... the first dry spot I found... I didn't have to wonder why I was laying down.

Who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?

You strike the match... why not be utterly changed to fire? To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life you never much liked?