Strong Is Your Hold Quotes

“It was more or less late afternoon
and I came over a hilltop
and smack in front of me was the sunset.”
― Galway Kinnell, Strong Is Your Hold

“Didn’t you like the way the ants help
the peony globes open by eating the glue off?
Weren’t you cheered to see the ironworkers
sitting on an I-beam dangling from a cable,
in a row, like starlings, eating lunch, maybe
baloney on white with fluorescent mustard?
Wasn’t it a revelation to waggle
from the estuary all the way up the river,
the kill, the pirle, the run, the rent, the beck,
the sike barely trickling, to the shock of a spring?”
― Galway Kinnell, Strong Is Your Hold