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A book to read slowly and savorI confess, I haven't finished this book yet, but it is one of those rare stories that ask to be read slowly and carefully and savored word by word. It is a sweet and fiercely passionate autobiography, unflinchingly hon ...more "
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Poetry That Beautifully Evokes a Sense of PlaceSuch rich and varied voices, brought together in this anthology that weaves together a deep sense of Place.
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“Eating is an agricultural act.”
― What Are People For?
― What Are People For?
“Unfinished Poem
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
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I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
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“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― Four Quartets
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― Four Quartets
“If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.”
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“[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”
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