Dead Man's Float Quotes

“Rumi advised me to keep my spirit

up in the branches of a tree and not peek

out too far, so I keep mine in the very tall

willows along the irrigation ditch out back”
― Jim Harrison, Dead Man's Float

“It's up to poets to revive the gods.”
― Jim Harrison, Dead Man's Float

“Pain (2)

...You want to give up, throw in the towel but you
can't give up because you're all you have.”
― Jim Harrison, Dead Man's Float

“Christ rose so long ago but the air
he rose through hasn't forgotten
the slight red contrail from the wounds.”
― Jim Harrison, Dead Man's Float

“From a distance the head is a bowling ball on the shoulders, but not so: a carapace and inside, the contents are what children call "gushy." The soft brain has its own improbable life containing galaxies, tens of thousands of people met, the microcosm of life in one place and on the diaphanous and often filthy cloth of memory, hanging there and battered on the clothesline in so many years of bad weather, wet and stiff with ice or blasted by sun and heat, part of it in shreds.

(From the poem, 'Round')”
― Jim Harrison, Dead Man's Float

“I was cooking my life in a cracked clay pot that was leaking. I had found secrets I didn’t deserve to know. When the battle for the mind is finally over it’s late June, green and raining.”
― Jim Harrison, Dead Man's Float