“(from: Age Sixty-nine)
Often, lately, the night is a cold maw
and stars the scattered white teeth of the gods, which spare none of us. At dawn I have birds, clearly divine messengers that I don't understand
yet day by day feel the grace of their intentions.”
― In Search of Small Gods
Often, lately, the night is a cold maw
and stars the scattered white teeth of the gods, which spare none of us. At dawn I have birds, clearly divine messengers that I don't understand
yet day by day feel the grace of their intentions.”
― In Search of Small Gods
“Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.”
― After Ikkyu & Other Poems
― After Ikkyu & Other Poems
“Isabel saw all their lives becoming history in units of days and nights so fatally private there was no one left for her to love.”
― Legends of the Fall
― Legends of the Fall
“Death steals everything except our stories.”
― In Search of Small Gods
― In Search of Small Gods
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