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“They were dreamers, and imaginers, and declarers; they lived looking and looking and looking, seeing the apparent and beyond the apparent, wondering, allowing for uncertainty, also grace, easygoing here, ferociously unmovable there; they were thoughtful.”
― Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
― Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
“Beauty has its purposes, which all our lives and at every season, it is our opportunity, and our joy, to divine.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“And that I did not give to anyone the responsibility for my life. It is mine. I made it. And can do what I want to with it. Give it back, someday, without bitterness, to the wild and weedy dunes.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
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“Forebears, models, spirits whose influence and teachings I am now inseparable from, and forever grateful for. I go nowhere, I arrive nowhere, without them. With them I live my life, with them I enter the event, I mold the meditation, I keep if I can some essence of the hour, even as it slips away. And I do not accomplish this alert and loving confrontation by myself and alone, but through terrifying and continual effort, and with this innumerable, fortifying company, bright as stars in the heaven of my mind.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
em’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at em’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
45 books
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10 friends
243 books
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617 books
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23 friends
166 books
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28 friends
190 books
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9 friends
71 books
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6 friends
12 books
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2 friends
239 books
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45 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Christian, Classics, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, and Religion
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