Words (Orr)
I always supposed
It was words
I was after—
Those
Shining fish
The poem's net gets.
But who knows?
Maybe it was
The sea
Itself
I was trying
To haul on deck.
Gregory Orr, from "Ode to Words"
Labels: poetry
I always supposed
It was words
I was after—
Those
Shining fish
The poem's net gets.
But who knows?
Maybe it was
The sea
Itself
I was trying
To haul on deck.
Gregory Orr, from "Ode to Words"
Labels: poetry
In the real world, there's only one ending, and it isn't happy.
Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
Labels: quote
There is no gain without loss
Labels: thought
Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so.
Jennifer Egan, The Candy House
Labels: quote
If nature undoes immediately what we work years to do, then we're not doing it right.
Were human memory total and perfect, perhaps I'd be only one person from start to finish, but forgetfulness cuts me off from who I've been so that hourly I am reborn.
"Wouldn't it be easier on you to treat this voyage as a lark or a mere outing?" Yes, I said, if I can first teach myself to treat my life as a lark.
William Least Heat-Moon, River-Horse
Labels: quote
To make the world perfect and full of splendor.
Was this indeed anybody's wish?
Harvey Shapiro, from "World"
Labels: poetry
The beginning is the beginning of the end.
Labels: thought
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