Archibald

“We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.”
― Mark Strand

“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
― Mark Strand, Selected Poems

“Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.”
― Mark Strand, Selected poems

“The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather”
― Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets