Audubon Quotes

“Against firelight, he sees the face of the woman / Lean over, and the lips purse sweet as to bestow a kiss, but / This is not true, and the great glob of spit / Hangs there, glittering, before she lets it fall.

The spit is what softens like silk the passage of steel / On the fine-grained stone. It whispers.”
― Robert Penn Warren, Audubon: A Vision

“To wake in some dawn and see / As though down a rifle barrel, lined up / Like sights, the self that was, the self that is, and there / Far off but in range, completing that alignment, your fate.”
― Robert Penn Warren, Audubon: A Vision

“For everything there is a season / But there is the dream / Of a season past all seasons.”
― Robert Penn Warren, Audubon: A Vision