A Quote by Randall Jarrell
Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.
It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.
What strikes the oyster shell
doesn't damage the pearl.
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth--as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.
I love Montauk Pearl oysters. They are briny, creamy, and sweet. To me, they are the perfect oyster.
Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
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