“Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”
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“Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.”
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is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.”
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“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.”
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