Poetry Quote by Michael Pollan — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Psychedelic experiences are notoriously hard to render in words; to try is necessarily to do violence to what has been seen and felt, which is in some fundamental way pre- or post-linguistic or, as students of mysticism say, ineffable. Emotions arrive in all their newborn nakedness, unprotected from the harsh light of scrutiny and, especially, the pitiless glare of irony. Platitudes that wouldn't seem out of place on a Hallmark card flow with the force of revealed truth.”

“To freeze the moment”

“Her breast is fit for pearls,”

“Everything comes down so pasteurized”

“Only in books the flat and final happens,”

“Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende”

“Let be be finale of seem.”