“Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom. ”
― Above the River: The Complete Poems
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom. ”
― Above the River: The Complete Poems
“...sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...”
― Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
― Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
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“I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.”
― Selected Poems
― Selected Poems
“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
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