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"'Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are concious of saying.'" — Apr 08, 2026 09:07AM
"'Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are concious of saying.'" — Apr 08, 2026 09:07AM
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”
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“Because submission, I soon learned, was also a kind of power. To be inside of pleasure, Trevor needed me. I had a choice, a craft, whether he ascends or falls depends on my willingness to make room for him, for you cannot rise without having something to rise over. Submission does not require elevation in order to control.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“But literature, the best of it, does not aim to be literature. It wants and strives, beyond that artifact part of itself, to be a true part of the composite human record—that is, not words but a reality.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claimed me, so many heavy coats. I didn’t choose them, I don’t fault them, but it took time to reject them. Now in the spring I kneel, I put my face into the packets of violets, the dampness, the freshness, the sense of ever-ness. Something is wrong, I know it, if I don’t keep my attention on eternity. May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever in the stream. May I look down upon the windflower and the bull thistle and the coreopsis with the greatest respect.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
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