“It was nothing to him that Nature had caught up this dropped stitch in order to continue her pattern. While he had love he had kept reason.”
― Maurice
― Maurice
“ON MEDITATING, SORT OF Meditation, so I’ve heard, is best accomplished if you entertain a certain strict posture. Frankly, I prefer just to lounge under a tree. So why should I think I could ever be successful? Some days I fall asleep, or land in that even better place—half-asleep—where the world, spring, summer, autumn, winter— flies through my mind in its hardy ascent and its uncompromising descent. So I just lie like that, while distance and time reveal their true attitudes: they never heard of me, and never will, or ever need to. Of course I wake up finally thinking, how wonderful to be who I am, made out of earth and water, my own thoughts, my own fingerprints— all that glorious, temporary stuff.”
― Blue Horses: Poems
― Blue Horses: Poems
“The most impressive thing about him, to me, is his belief in those wings. Useless, fragile, attached to his arms by a couple of cuffs, and yet he believes in them as a child might believe a cloak will make him invisible.”
― My Policeman
― My Policeman
“Tell me a secret, a nice one.”
― All the Young Dudes
― All the Young Dudes
“And yet even this was not as real as my despairing
sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for
me again--unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality.”
― Giovanni’s Room
sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for
me again--unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality.”
― Giovanni’s Room
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