Saving Daylight Quotes

“We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within. ”
― Jim Harrison, Saving Daylight

“Nowhere is it the same place as yesterday.
None of us is the same person as yesterday.
We finally die from the exhaustion of becoming.
This downward cellular jubilance is shared
by the wind, bugs, birds, bears and rivers,
and perhaps the black holes in galactic space
where our souls will all be gathered in an invisible
thimble of antimatter. But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Yes, trees wear out as the wattles under my chin
grow, the wrinkled hands that tried to strangle
a wife beater in New York City in 1957.
We whirl with the earth, catching our breath
as someone else, our soft brains ill-trained
except to watch ourselves disappear into the distance.
Still, we love to make music of this puzzle.”
― Jim Harrison, Saving Daylight

“He often dreams of the nine dogs of his life and idly wonders if he’ll see them again. He’s not counting on it but it’s another nice idea.”
― Jim Harrison, Saving Daylight

“Lift up your dark heart and sing a song about
how time drifts past you like the gentlest, almost
imperceptible breeze.

— Jim Harrison, from “Cold Poem,” Saving Daylight. (Copper Canyon Press 2006)”
― Jim Harrison, Saving Daylight