...But if a mirror ever makes
you sad

you should know
that it does
not know
you.

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

Every man carries within him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

A parlor game for a wet afternoon – imaging the mirrors of one’s friends. A has a huge pier glass, gilded and baroque, B a discreet little pocket mirror in a pigskin case with his initials stamped on the back; whenever one looks at C, he is in the act of throwing his mirror away but, if one looks in his pocket or up his sleeve, one always finds another, like an extra ace.

If you want to see the love of your life, look in the mirror.

MIRROR PIECE

Instead of obtaining a mirror, obtain a person.
Look into him.
Use different people.
Old, young, fat, small, etc.

1964 spring

"If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?"

Sometimes we can’t see what’s right in front of us, because it’s behind us, and we’re looking in a mirror.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.

The furies are at home
in the mirror; it is their address.
Even the clearest water,
if deep enough can drown.
Never think to surprise them.
Your face approaching ever
so friendly is the white flag
they ignore. There is no truce

with the furies. A mirror’s temperature
is always at zero. It is ice
in the veins. Its camera
is an X — ray. It is a chalice

held out to you in
silent communion, where gaspingly
you partake of a shifting
identity never your own.

How you see me? Tell me how you see me. When mirrors only reflect what you want to see. Believe me.

I wanna know what you see
when you look in the mirror
on a day you’re feeling good.
I wanna know what you see
when you look in the mirror
on a day you’re feeling bad.

I wanna know the first person
who taught you your beauty
could ever be reflected
on a lousy piece of glass.

"If you could just for a moment come out of yourself and see what I see...you wouldn't stop looking at yourself. But unfortunately you need a mirror to do it, my poor beauty.” (p148)

The summary of the advice of all prophets is this;
Find yourself a mirror.

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes — NAPOLEON HILL

I'll be your mirror Reflect what you are In case you don't know