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„Therefore, dark past,I’m about to do it.I’m about to forgive youfor everything.“
„And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.“
„Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Yes indeed.“
„Come with me into the woods where spring isadvancing, as it does, no matter what,not being singular or particular, but oneof the forever gifts, and certainly visible.“
„Be prepared. A dog is adorable and noble.A dog is a true and loving friend. A dogis also a hedonist.“
„I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.He is sweeter than soap.He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,which can’t even bark…“
„The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.“
„Always there is something worth sayingabout glory, about gratitude.“
„Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.“
„What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.“
„I don’t know what God is.I don’t know what death is. But I believe they have between themsome fervent and necessary arrangement.“
„Though I play at the edges of knowing,truly I knowour part is not knowing,but looking, and touching, and loving“
„Among the swans there is none called the least, or the greatest.“
„then you too are a dream which last night and the night before thatand the years before thatyou were not.“
„Am I not among the early risersand the long-distance walkers? Have I not stood, amazed, as I considerthe perfection of the morning starabove the peaks of the houses, and the crowns of the treesblue in the first light?Do I not see how the trees tremble, as thoughsheets of water flowed over themthough it is only wind, that common thing,free to everyone, and everything?“
„Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and inevery motion of my body there was a delicious ease,and in every motion of the green earth there wasa hint of paradise,and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.“
„After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.“
„You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn’t need any more of that sound.“
„Listen, whatever you see and love—that’s where you are.“
„In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.“
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