The River Twice Quotes

“Some things we only think we can imagine.”
― Kathleen Graber, The River Twice: Poems

“Each day I walk a line between my belief
in the sacred & my disbelief in the divine.”
― Kathleen Graber, The River Twice: Poems

“Last night, when I closed the book, I was exactly forty-six pages
into a Norwegian novel thirty-six hundred pages long. The narrator
& his father are just sitting down to eat in silence a dinner

of pan-fried chops. It must have taken a kind of faith
to have composed this, as it will be an act of devotion to read it through
to the end.”
― Kathleen Graber, The River Twice: Poems

“If you are
constellated somehow, a little bit inside
each of your people, I am sorry that there is more
& more of you lately I do not understand.
Sometimes I want simply to sit alone a long time
in silence. America, you must want this too.”
― Kathleen Graber, The River Twice: Poems